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 HOGANGood golf begins with a good grip.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
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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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I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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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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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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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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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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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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I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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