Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
BOBBY JONESI never learned anything from a match that I won.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
-
-
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
BOBBY JONES -
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.
BOBBY JONES -
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
BOBBY JONES -
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.
BOBBY JONES -
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
BOBBY JONES -
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.
BOBBY JONES -
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
BOBBY JONES -
No one ever swung too slowly.
BOBBY JONES -
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.
BOBBY JONES -
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.
BOBBY JONES -
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONES -
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.
BOBBY JONES -
If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
BOBBY JONES -
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
BOBBY JONES -
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
BOBBY JONES