The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONESNobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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 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.
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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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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.
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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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