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 HOGANI hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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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 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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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I’m hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it’s a joy that very few people experience.
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I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
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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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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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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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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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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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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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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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