Ben Hogan Quotes - The Hawk

One of the most feared and respected golfers of all time. Sam Snead was once quoted saying I fear 3 things in golf, Lightning, a downhill putt, and Ben Hogan!

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.

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.

I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

If it is to be, it is up to me.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

In using the word rhythm I am not speaking of the swing. The rhythm I have referenced to here could also be described as the order of procedure. Walter Hagen was probably the greatest exponent of the kind of rhythm I have in mind to play golf.

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Greens near the ocean break imperceptibly toward the sea.

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