Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
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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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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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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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