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I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

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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He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
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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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Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared ground and into a hole which is of sufficient size to accomodate it by a good margin. Simple that is, provided there is no limit upon the time or the number of strokes required.
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.
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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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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
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The 'enemy' in golf is tension.
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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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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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Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.
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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?
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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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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No putt is too short to be despised.
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