The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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 ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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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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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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 never learned anything from a match that I won.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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