Bobby Jones Quotes

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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…
• No one ever swung too slowly.
• 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…
• Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.
• You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
• I never learned anything from a match that I won.
• 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 assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be…
• The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
• Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless…
• The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of…
• Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
• 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…
• Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
• A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when…
• Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

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