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 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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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 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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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