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 JONESA 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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 never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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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.
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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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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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