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.
BOBBY JONESI will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses 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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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