Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
BOBBY JONESYou swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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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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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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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 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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