The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONESYou might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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 never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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