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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.

Bobby Jones

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.
BOBBY JONES

Basketball Golf Sports
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
BOBBY JONES

Different Familiar Games
If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
BOBBY JONES

Chosen Golf Nowhere Place
If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
BOBBY JONES

Advice Caddies Golf
I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Play
No one ever swung too slowly.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Slowly Swung
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Men Team
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
BOBBY JONES

Fighting Muscles Strive
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Long Men
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Lying Play
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONES

Enemy Golf Tension
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Passion
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
BOBBY JONES

Eight Feet Golf
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.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Lying
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.
BOBBY JONES

Appreciate Disappointment Golf
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Play Shade

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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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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