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 HOGANThe ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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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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Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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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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Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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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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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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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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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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