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 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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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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.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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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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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 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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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