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 HOGANThe greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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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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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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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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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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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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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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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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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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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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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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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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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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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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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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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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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Good golf begins with a good grip.
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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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