You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
BOBBY JONESGolf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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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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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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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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He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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