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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.

Ben Hogan

I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Hate Pockets
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Sports Winning
I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
BEN HOGAN

Dreaned Golf Holes Night
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.
BEN HOGAN

Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way
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.
BEN HOGAN

Exercise Memories Skill
All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
BEN HOGAN

Break Golf West
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Persistence
If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
BEN HOGAN

Athlete Golfer Sports
If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there’s no reason why he can’t shoot 18. Why can’t you birdie every hole on the course?
BEN HOGAN

Golf Men Reason Shoot
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
BEN HOGAN

Disgrace Important Names
Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
BEN HOGAN

Giving Golf Life Work
I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Glamour Golf
I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
BEN HOGAN

Game Golf Home
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Perfection Quest
I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf New Something
Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Play

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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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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