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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.

Bobby Jones

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Player Thinking
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Space Sports
Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
BOBBY JONES

Asses Bad Boys Golf Shots Silly
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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Chosen Golf Nowhere Place
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Lying Play
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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Golf Men Team
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Holes Thinking
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Important Play
Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Play
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.
BOBBY JONES

Appreciate Disappointment Golf
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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Games Golf Lying
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Swings Thinking
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.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Men
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking

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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