The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
BEN HOGANJesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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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 with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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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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There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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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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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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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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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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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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Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
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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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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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