Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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 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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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