Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
BOBBY JONESIt 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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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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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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