In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
BOBBY JONESNo-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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Nobody ever swung a club 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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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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