In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
BOBBY JONESGolf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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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 never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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