Bobby Jones Quotes

The Worlds greatest amateur, and golf's only Grand Slam Winner

Many shots are spoilt at the last instant by the effort to add a few extra yards.

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

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.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing the bank (after calling a penalty on himself in the US Open)

No one ever swung too slowly.

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.

The best exercise for golfers is golfing.

Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.

One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his swing. Grantland Rice on Bobby Jones

Don't worry about par. The practice of printing par figures is literally a mental hazard.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realise it.

If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I would be carrying the bag.

I have never felt more lonely as on the golf course in the midst of the championship with thousands of people around.

If you keep shooting par at them, they'll all crack sooner or later.

Every golfer worthy of the name should have some acquaintance with the principles of golf course design, not only for the betterment of the game, but for his own selfish enjoyment.

The greatest golfer in the world, being introduced by the worst one. James Walker, Mayor of New York, introduces Bobby Jones.

Jones had the best that life could offer and took it with great grace, and then he had the worst and took it in the same way. Herbert Warren Wind on the affliction that condemned Bobby Jones to a wheelchair.