In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
BOBBY JONESGolf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games.
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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 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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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 ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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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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