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.
BEN HOGANAll other things being equal, greens break to the west.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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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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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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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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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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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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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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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
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People have always been telling me what I can’t do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That’s been one of my driving forces all my life.
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You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.
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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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