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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

Ben Hogan

There’s no set time or schedule for developing one’s skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn’t come overnight. It’s a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.
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Exercise Memories Skill
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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Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way
Control 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.
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Golf Iron Player
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
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Golf Hair Swings
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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Golf Lying Water
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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Eye Fighting Play
When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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Game Golf Practice Right
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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Golf Poor Remember Shade Tendency
Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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Giving Golf Life Work
Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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Games Golf Sports
I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
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Games Glamour Golf
Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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Games Golf Play
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
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Friday Inspirational Sports
I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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Game Golf Home
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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Average Golf Problem
I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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Games Golf New Something

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