Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
BOBBY JONESNicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
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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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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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