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.
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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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.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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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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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re 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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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