Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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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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I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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