Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Quotes

• Golf is a game that is played on a five inch course—the distance between your ears.

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

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• Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.

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

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• 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.

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

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Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (7)

Birth:	17th March, 1902
Death:	18th December, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Golfer, Lawyer

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Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. was an American amateur golfer, and a lawyer by profession. Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete on a national and international level.

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