The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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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