Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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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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I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant.
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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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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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