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 JONESGolf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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?
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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