The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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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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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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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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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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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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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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Golf 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.
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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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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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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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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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 swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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