Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
BOBBY JONESThere 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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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.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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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 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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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