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.
BOBBY JONESIf 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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A 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.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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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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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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