Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
BOBBY JONESOne 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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 object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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