The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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 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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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 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.
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In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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