Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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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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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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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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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