Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
BOBBY JONESFight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
BOBBY JONESIf ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
BOBBY JONESGolf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
BOBBY JONESGolf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
BOBBY JONESSome emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
BOBBY JONESGolf 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.
BOBBY JONESYou might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
BOBBY JONESNobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
BOBBY JONESAddressing 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.
BOBBY JONESOn 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.
BOBBY JONESThe ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONESToo much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
BOBBY JONESOne 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.
BOBBY JONESGolf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
BOBBY JONESIt 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.
BOBBY JONESI 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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