In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant.
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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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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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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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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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