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.
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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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