Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
BOBBY JONESCompetitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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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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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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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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