Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
BOBBY JONESFight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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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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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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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