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.
BOBBY JONESToo much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses 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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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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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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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