One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
BOBBY JONESNobody ever swung a club too slowly.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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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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 swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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