If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
BOBBY JONESGolf 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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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.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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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 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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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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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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The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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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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