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.
BOBBY JONESHe [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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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