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

Ben Hogan

I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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Games Golf New Something
The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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Greatest Improving Pleasure
When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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Opportunity Practice
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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Golf Morning Waiting
I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
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Golf Hate Pockets
Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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Games Golf Play
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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Athlete Funny Sports
The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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Golf Important Next One
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?
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Golf Men Reason Shoot
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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Golf Perfection Quest
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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Eye Fighting Play
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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Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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Golf Management Talent
Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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Class Golf People
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
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Golf Hair Swings
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
Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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Day Greatness One Practice
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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Done Golf Mean
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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Golf Stroke Wife
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
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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Golf Iron Player
This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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Games Golf Winning
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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Games Golf Persistence
I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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Bother Bothered People
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 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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Believe Golf Swing Unnatural
All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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Break Golf West

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