As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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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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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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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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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