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If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.

Ben Hogan

You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.
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Accident Ball Moving Other Way
This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
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Games Golf Winning
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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Done Golf Mean
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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Golf Needs Sports
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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Driving Force People
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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Games Golf Persistence
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
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
Hit the ball up to the hole… You meet a better class of people up there.
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Class Golf People
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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Golf Lying Water
You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don’t make a big deal out of an easy shot.
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Eye Fighting Play
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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Golf Perfection Quest
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
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Golf Judging Swings
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
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
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
I never played a round when I didn’t learn something new about the game.
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Games Golf New Something
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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Exercise Memories Skill
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
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Day Good Missing One
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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Golf Management Talent
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
I play with friends, but we don’t play friendly games.
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Funny Games Golf
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
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Golf Stroke Wife
Certainly, if you can’t manage your game, you can’t play tournament golf.
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Games Golf Play
I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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Golf Knees Monsters
If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
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Inspirational Motivational Sports
All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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Break Golf West

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