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.
BEN HOGANGolf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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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I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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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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I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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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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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
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If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
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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 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 don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
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