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.
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.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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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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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.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant.
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