The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
BEN HOGANYou 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.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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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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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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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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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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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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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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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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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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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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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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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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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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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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.
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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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