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.
BOBBY JONESGolf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games.
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
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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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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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