Bobby Jones Quotes About Golf
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.
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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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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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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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I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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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.
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Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.
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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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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.
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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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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
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Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.
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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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The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.
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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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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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