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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.

Bobby Jones

There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Holes Thinking
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Lying Play
If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
BOBBY JONES

Advice Caddies Golf
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
BOBBY JONES

Funny Golf Inspirational
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Order Winning
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Littles Play
I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Play
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
BOBBY JONES

Fighting Muscles Strive
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Men Team
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Important Play
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?
BOBBY JONES

Asses Bad Boys Golf Shots Silly
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.
BOBBY JONES

Balls Hurt Thinking
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Passion
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Loses Winning
Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Lying
One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Struggle Years

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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