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.
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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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