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.
BOBBY JONESGolf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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