If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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On 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.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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One 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.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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