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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

He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
BOBBY JONES

Appreciate Disappointment Golf
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Lying Play
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Long Men
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Lonely People
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
BOBBY JONES

Funny Golf Inspirational
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Space Sports
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
BOBBY JONES

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

Different Familiar Games
Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Hands
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
BOBBY JONES

Clubs Golf Hands
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONES

Enemy Golf Tension
No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Men
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
BOBBY JONES

Beats Golf Object
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
BOBBY JONES

Eight Feet Golf
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Play Shade

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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