Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
BOBBY JONESI can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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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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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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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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 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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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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