Good golf begins with a good grip.
BEN HOGANCertainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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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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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.
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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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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.
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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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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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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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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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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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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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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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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