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.
BOBBY JONESI never learned anything from a match that I won.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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