Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
BEN HOGANI could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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Good golf begins with a good grip.
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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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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.
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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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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 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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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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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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