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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.
Bobby Jones
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Bobby Jones
Age: 69 †
Born: 1902
Born: March 17
Died: 1971
Died: December 18
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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I got an extra hour's nap.
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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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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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I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.
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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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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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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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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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The 'enemy' in golf is tension.
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No putt is too short to be despised.
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Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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