It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
BOBBY JONESYou are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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