Ben Hogan Quotes

Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.

When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.

The game itself, I think, plays into the strength of my game, which has always been tee to green, hitting the ball consistently in play and managing my game. Putting has always been the one thing that's been a bit more erratic.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

The only reason why I don't win is because of a bad decision, misjudged the wind, misjudged the read on the greens and wet conditions. Those are the three or four things that will cause me not to win. That's it.

I call golf with my head and my heart. I don't have any notes in front of me - it's different from basketball and football in that feel.

The more games you play, the more game management you learn.

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.

I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.

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

Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.

One of the worst mistakes you can make in golf is trying to force the game.

Think of golf as chess. You have to think two or three moves ahead every time you hit the ball. Over every shot, you should be thinking, 'Where do I need to put this ball in order to make my next shot as easy as possible.

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.