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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.

Ben Hogan

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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Iron Player
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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Morning People
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.
BEN HOGAN

Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way
I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
BEN HOGAN

Play Way Winning
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Management Talent
I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Knees Monsters
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.
BEN HOGAN

Exercise Memories Skill
I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
BEN HOGAN

Dreaned Golf Holes Night
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Perfection Quest
If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
BEN HOGAN

Athlete Golfer Sports
The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
BEN HOGAN

Greatest Improving Pleasure
Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Sports
Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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Game Golf Lower Score Sports
When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
BEN HOGAN

Game Golf Practice Right
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Stroke Wife
A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
BEN HOGAN

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