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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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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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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