In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
BOBBY JONESI 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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.
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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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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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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 best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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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 object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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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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