If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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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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