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Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.
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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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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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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