Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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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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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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