Quotes about golf
golf winning loses
Bobby Jones Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
golf clubs
Bobby Jones Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
golf games play
Bobby Jones 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.
golf two timing
Bobby Jones Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.
golf games people
Bobby Jones 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.
golf simple numbers
Bobby Jones 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.
golf men games
Bobby Jones 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.
golf
Bobby Jones No one ever swung too slowly.
golf games play
Bobby Jones 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.
golf two secret
Bobby Jones The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
golf effort lasts
Bobby Jones Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.
golf games balls
Bobby Jones 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.
golf player thinking
Bobby Jones 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.
golf winning order
Bobby Jones 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.
golf should-have play
Bobby Jones 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.
golf funny-golf inspirational-golf
Bobby Jones I never learned anything from a match that I won.
golf thinking swings
Bobby Jones You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
golf games play
Bobby Jones Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.
golf beats objects
Bobby Jones The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
golf men might
Bobby Jones You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
golf ideas accepting
Bobby Jones The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.
golf games mental-toughness
Bobby Jones Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course
golf fighting games
Bob Hope If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it.
golf eagles president
Bob Hope The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark...
golf winning play
Bob Hope Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes. The only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.
golf wounded hard
Bob Hope It's not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded.
golf president painting
Bob Hope President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
golf guy way
Bob Hope Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
golf bags alligators
Bob Hope On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.
golf swimming work-out
Bob Hope I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
golf nine lasts
Bob Hope Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole.
golf weight-loss dieting
Bob Hope That's life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.