Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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 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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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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.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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