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 HOGANHit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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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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I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
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Good golf begins with a good grip.
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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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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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There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
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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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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.
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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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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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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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