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 JONESSome emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays 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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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