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.
BOBBY JONESNobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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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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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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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.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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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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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 is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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