Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
BOBBY JONESIn golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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 might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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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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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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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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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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