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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

Ben Hogan

Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
BEN HOGAN

Day Good Missing One
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Perfection Quest
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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Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way
There 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

Air Golf Sports
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.
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Eye Fighting Play
There’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.
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Exercise Memories Skill
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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Believe Golf Swing Unnatural
I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
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Golf Hate Pockets
Good golf begins with a good grip.
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Golf Good
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 HOGAN

Golf Iron Player
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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Athlete Funny Sports
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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Friday Inspirational Sports
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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Judging People Player
Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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Giving Golf Life Work
If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
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Golf Hrad Money Try Trying
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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Accident Ball Moving Other Way

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