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.
BOBBY JONESIf 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.
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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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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