Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
BOBBY JONESWell, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
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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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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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