If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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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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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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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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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 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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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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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