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 JONESYou swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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 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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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