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“Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Games #Inches
“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.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Play #Should
“Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Sports #Golf #Space
“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.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Fun #Golf #Men
“The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Men #Long #Soul
“The best exercise for golfers is golfing.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Exercise #Golf #Golfers
“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.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Lying #Golf #Games
“Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Games #Play
“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 recovering from a car crash.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Airplane #Golf #Differences
“The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Two #Secret
“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.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Games #Able
“You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Thinking #Swings
“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.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Men #Games
“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.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Lying #Golf #Average
“Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Clubs
“Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Effort #Yards
“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 he is merely worrying.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Player #Thinking
“It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Passion #Golf #Games
“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 year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Struggle #Golf #Years
“In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Winning #Order
“I never learned anything from a match that I won.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf
“No one ever swung too slowly.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf
“Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Inspirational #Sports #Thinking
“Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Winning
“I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Home #Golf #Balls
“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.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Basketball #Sports #Golf
“You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Men #Might
“Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Two #Timing
“Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Play #Littles
“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.”
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Games #Play

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