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Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!

Walter Hagen

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Walter Hagen
Age: 76 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
Golfer
Rochester
New York
Walter Charles Hagen
Putt
Likely
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Golf
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Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.
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Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.
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I don't want to be a millionaire just live like one.
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Don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.
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Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight.
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If you worry about the ones you missed, you are going to keep missing them.
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That's the easiest 69 I ever made.
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It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.
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I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing.
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Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.
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Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?
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Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.
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Which one of you is going to be runner-up?
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He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.
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