The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
BEN HOGANThere’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.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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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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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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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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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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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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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 never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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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 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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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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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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