Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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