The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
BEN HOGANThe only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
BEN HOGANI don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
BEN HOGANThe average golfer’s problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
BEN HOGANI hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
BEN HOGANGolf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
BEN HOGANGolf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
BEN HOGANIf you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
BEN HOGANJesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
BEN HOGANYou 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.
BEN HOGANPlacing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
BEN HOGANThis is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
BEN HOGANIf we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
BEN HOGANAll other things being equal, greens break to the west.
BEN HOGANAs you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGANI 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.
BEN HOGANThere is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
BEN HOGAN