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The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
Bobby Jones
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Bobby Jones
Age: 69 †
Born: 1902
Born: March 17
Died: 1971
Died: December 18
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Robert Tyre Jones Jr.
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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.
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I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.
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Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.
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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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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. You are not playing a human adversary you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
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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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Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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.
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Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.
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Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.
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