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.
BOBBY JONESIf 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.
BOBBY JONESI never learned anything from a match that I won.
BOBBY JONESNobody ever swung a club too slowly.
BOBBY JONESSome emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
BOBBY JONESYou swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
BOBBY JONESI can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
BOBBY JONESIf ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
BOBBY JONESThe best exercise for golfers is golfing.
BOBBY JONESGolf 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.
BOBBY JONESCompetitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
BOBBY JONESThe 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.
BOBBY JONESJack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
BOBBY JONESYou might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
BOBBY JONESIn 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 JONESIt 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.
BOBBY JONESThe object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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