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 JONESThe best exercise for golfers is golfing.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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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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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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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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