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.
BOBBY JONESNo-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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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I will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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On 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.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re 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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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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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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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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