This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
BEN HOGANControl is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You’ve got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you’re in the boondocks it won’t do you any good.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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You continually have to ask yourself what club to play, where to aim it, whether to accept a safe par or to try to go for a birdie. You can’t play every hole the same way. I never could.
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People have always been telling me what I can’t do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That’s been one of my driving forces all my life.
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The average golfer’s problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
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Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
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There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
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If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don’t make a big deal out of an easy shot.
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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I don’t believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.
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