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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.

Ben Hogan

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Luck Skills Two
Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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Day Greatness One Practice
Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
BEN HOGAN

Class Golf People
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
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
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
I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Glamour Golf
When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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Opportunity Practice
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
I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf New Something
The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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Greatest Improving Pleasure
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Lying Water
This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
BEN HOGAN

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

Golf Sports Winning
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
Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Play

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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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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