Good golf begins with a good grip.
BEN HOGANA shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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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 is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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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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Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
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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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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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If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
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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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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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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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I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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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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Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
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