BOBBY JONES

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

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.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

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.

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.

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.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

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.

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?

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

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 of consequences.

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.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

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.