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 HOGANGolf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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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.
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I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It’s like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
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Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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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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.
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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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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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I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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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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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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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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