Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
BOBBY JONESDoesn’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?
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
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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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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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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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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 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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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