Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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 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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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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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Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.
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