Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
BEN HOGANShoot a lower score than everybody else.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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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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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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You wouldn’t have had to call a penalty on me, I would’ve called I on myself’. 9. “I’m the sole judge of my standards”. 10. “I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me like it bothers some people. You can outwork the best player in the world.
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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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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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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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Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
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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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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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