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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.

Bobby Jones

Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
BOBBY JONES

Different Familiar Games
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.
BOBBY JONES

Basketball Golf Sports
One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Struggle Years
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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Golf People Simple
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
In 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 JONES

Golf Order Winning
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
BOBBY JONES

Fighting Muscles Strive
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Important Play
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
BOBBY JONES

Funny Golf Inspirational
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
BOBBY JONES

Exercise Golf Golfers
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONES

Enemy Golf Tension
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Holes Thinking
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Men Team
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.
BOBBY JONES

Balls Games Golf

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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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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