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?
BOBBY JONESWell, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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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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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.
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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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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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