If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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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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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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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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