You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
BOBBY JONESGolf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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