Occupation: Golfer Birth: March 17, 1902 Death: December 18, 1971
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands..
As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about gettin….
Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying..
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..
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….
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course.
No one ever swung too slowly..
A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard ….
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 is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it..
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?.
Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade..
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little..
Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared ground and….
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 goo….
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker..
If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag..
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….
He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers o….
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 wr….
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 th….