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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.

Ben Hogan

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Ben Hogan
Age: 84 †
Born: 1912
Born: August 13
Died: 1997
Died: July 25
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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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Certainly, if you can't manage your game, you can't play tournament golf. 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 always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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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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Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
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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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The most important shot in golf is the next one.
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Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.
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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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When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.
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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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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
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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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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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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
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Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
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I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.
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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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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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