Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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 a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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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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If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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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 are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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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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