Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
BEN HOGANPlacing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
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If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
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You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I’m hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it’s a joy that very few people experience.
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I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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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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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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If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there’s no reason why he can’t shoot 18. Why can’t you birdie every hole on the course?
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I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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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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