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.
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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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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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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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 a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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