The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
BEN HOGANReverse 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.
More Ben Hogan Quotes
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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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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
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A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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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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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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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 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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Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
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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 don’t believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.
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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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I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
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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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