Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
BOBBY JONESWell, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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 like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays 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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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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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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