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.
BOBBY JONESNo one ever swung too slowly.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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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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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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