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.
BOBBY JONESIt is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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 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 might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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