You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
BOBBY JONESSome people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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