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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

Ben Hogan

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.
BEN HOGAN

Believe Golf Swing Unnatural
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Stroke Wife
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Sports Winning
Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.
BEN HOGAN

Ball Golf Jesus
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.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Morning People
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Perfection Quest
The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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Greatest Improving Pleasure
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

Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way
Good golf begins with a good grip.
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Golf Good
Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
BEN HOGAN

Class Golf People
Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Poor Remember Shade Tendency
I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Glamour Golf
I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Morning Waiting
If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
BEN HOGAN

Inspirational Motivational Sports
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.
BEN HOGAN

Accident Ball Moving Other Way
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Persistence
I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf New Something
When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
BEN HOGAN

Game Golf Practice Right
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.
BEN HOGAN

Done Golf Mean
I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
BEN HOGAN

Bother Bothered People
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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Golf Management Talent
If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
BEN HOGAN

Athlete Golfer 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
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Average Golf Problem
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGAN

Friday Inspirational Sports
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn’t it
BEN HOGAN

Challenge Singing Sports
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
BEN HOGAN

Disgrace Important Names
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

All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

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