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.
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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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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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