Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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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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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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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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