If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
BOBBY JONESGolf 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.
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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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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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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
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