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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.

Ben Hogan

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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Accept Aim Continually Same Try Way
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGAN

Friday Inspirational Sports
Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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Games Golf Sports
I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play
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Play Way Winning
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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Judging People Player
The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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Golf Important Next One
When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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Opportunity Practice
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?
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Golf Men Reason Shoot
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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Air Golf Sports
I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
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Golf Morning Waiting
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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Golf Poor Remember Shade Tendency
Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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Game Golf Lower Score Sports
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
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Disgrace Important Names
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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Champion Golf Men
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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Day Good Missing One
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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Golf Stroke Wife
Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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Day Greatness One Practice
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
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Athlete Funny Sports
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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Golf Lying Water
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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Golf Sports Winning
Good golf begins with a good grip.
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Golf Good
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
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Golf Hair Swings
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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Golf Needs Sports
I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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Golf Knees Monsters
Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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Games Golf Play
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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Golf Morning People
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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Average Golf Problem

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