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.
BOBBY JONESJack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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