Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
BOBBY JONESA leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games.
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I will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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