If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
BOBBY JONESYou might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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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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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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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