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?
BOBBY JONESYou might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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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 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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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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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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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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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