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.
BOBBY JONESThe 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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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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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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