Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
BOBBY JONESThe object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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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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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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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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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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 never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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