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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.

Bobby Jones

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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf People Simple
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Lying Play
If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
BOBBY JONES

Advice Caddies Golf
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.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Men
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 Holes Thinking
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 Struggle Years
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Play Shade
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
BOBBY JONES

Funny Golf Inspirational
The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Long Men
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Kind Play
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.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf People
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Important Play
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Men Team
No one ever swung too slowly.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Slowly Swung
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
BOBBY JONES

Different Familiar Games
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too

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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