Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
BOBBY JONESThe object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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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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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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I will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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