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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.
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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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Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.
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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.
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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.
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The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.
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