Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
BOBBY JONESIt 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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I 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.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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 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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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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