On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
BOBBY JONESAs 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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