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.
BOBBY JONESGolf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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