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 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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Addressing 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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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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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