Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
BOBBY JONESAddressing 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
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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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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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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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I will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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