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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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 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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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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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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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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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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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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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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Golf 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.
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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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