Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
BEN HOGANThe most important shot in golf is the next one.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
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Good golf begins with a good grip.
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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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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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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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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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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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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
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