Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
BOBBY JONESGolf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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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Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.
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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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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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 I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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