Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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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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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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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