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.
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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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 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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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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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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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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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.
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