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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.

Ben Hogan

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.
BEN HOGAN

Eye Fighting Play
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Needs Sports
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
BEN HOGAN

Average Golf Problem
Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
BEN HOGAN

Game Golf Lower Score Sports
I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
BEN HOGAN

Bother Bothered People
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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Iron Player
When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
BEN HOGAN

Opportunity Practice
Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
BEN HOGAN

Day Greatness One Practice
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Persistence
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Judging Swings
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Lying Water
I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.
BEN HOGAN

Champion Golf Men
You wouldn’t have had to call a penalty on me, I would’ve called I on myself’. 9. “I’m the sole judge of my standards”. 10. “I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me like it bothers some people. You can outwork the best player in the world.
BEN HOGAN

Judging People Player
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
BEN HOGAN

Disgrace Important Names
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
BEN HOGAN

Athlete Funny Sports
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.
BEN HOGAN

Exercise Memories Skill

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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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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