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.
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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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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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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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 ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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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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