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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

Ben Hogan

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 Poor Remember Shade Tendency
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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Accident Ball Moving Other Way
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
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Disgrace Important Names
The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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Greatest Improving Pleasure
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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Average Golf Problem
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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Golf Lying Water
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
You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I’m hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it’s a joy that very few people experience.
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Golf Morning People
I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
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Play Way Winning
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
BEN HOGAN

Athlete Funny Sports
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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Games Golf Persistence
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
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Golf Judging Swings
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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Golf Luck Skills Two
I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Morning Waiting
Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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Giving Golf Life Work
When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
BEN HOGAN

Game Golf Practice Right

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

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