Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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 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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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.
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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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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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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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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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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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