It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
BOBBY JONESThe best exercise for golfers is golfing.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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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.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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 best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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