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.
BOBBY JONESYou swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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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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The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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