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 JONESOn 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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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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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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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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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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