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 JONESThere 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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