Quotes by Golf I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad. Ben Hogan games home golf 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? Ben Hogan reason-why golf men The truth is, the first golf club I owned was an old left-handed, wooden-shafted, rib-faced mashie that a fellow gave me, and that's the club I was weaned on. During the mornings we caddies would bang the ball up and down the practice field until the members arrived and it was time to go to work. So I did all that formative practice left-handed. But I'm a natural right-hander. Ben Hogan practice golf morning If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard. Ben Hogan would-be golf trying Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own. Ben Hogan strokes wife golf Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones. Ben Hogan shade golf remember I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. Ben Hogan persistence games golf Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there. Ben Hogan class golf people 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. Ben Hogan swings golf believe I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again. Ben Hogan waiting golf morning I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games. Ben Hogan games golf funny 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. Ben Hogan games play golf I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees. Ben Hogan knees monsters golf A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one. Ben Sayers great-golf player golf Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or on a golf course in winter, you are not going to wish you had spent more time at the office or making a sales call or watching a show. You will wish you had spent more time with your family. Ben Stein nursing home golf In golf as in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference. Ben Wicks follow-through differences golf It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing. Bernard Darwin constant improvement golf Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one. Bernard Darwin wise games golf It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself. Bernard Darwin principles rabbits golf It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through. Bernard Darwin law play golf «89101112131415161718»
