Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
BOBBY JONESFight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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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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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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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.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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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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