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Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.

Ben Hogan

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
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 most important shot in golf is the next one.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Important Next One
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
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
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
BEN HOGAN

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

Disgrace Important Names
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
People have always been telling me what I can’t do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That’s been one of my driving forces all my life.
BEN HOGAN

Driving Force People
I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
BEN HOGAN

Dreaned Golf Holes Night
All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
BEN HOGAN

Break Golf West
Golf was my life. I didn’t want to give it up. So I went to work!
BEN HOGAN

Giving Golf Life Work
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
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf Persistence
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Management Talent
I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
BEN HOGAN

Funny Games Golf
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
BEN HOGAN

Golf Perfection Quest
I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Glamour Golf
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
BEN HOGAN

Day Good Missing One
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
I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
BEN HOGAN

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

Ball Golf Jesus
If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there’s no reason why he can’t shoot 18. Why can’t you birdie every hole on the course?
BEN HOGAN

Golf Men Reason Shoot
I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
BEN HOGAN

Games Golf New Something
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
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

Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.

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