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.
BOBBY JONESNo one ever swung too slowly.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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?
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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