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 HOGANAs you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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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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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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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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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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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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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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You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.
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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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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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