Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
BEN HOGANI always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
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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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Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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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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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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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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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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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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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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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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