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 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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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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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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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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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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The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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Good golf begins with a good grip.
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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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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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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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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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