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 HOGANIf we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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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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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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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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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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I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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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.
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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.
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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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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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