Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
BOBBY JONESIn 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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