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.
BOBBY JONESThe 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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 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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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 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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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