Ben Hogan Quotes

At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you've got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.

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 don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie.

In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no matter how much advice you get. The only thing people can suggest that matters is, be a good person and treat people respectfully. But advice on your game doesn't mean much to me.

Whether you're driving it short or you drive it far, you got to be in the fairway because the rough's brutal, and if you get out of the rough into some of these bunkers, you can get some funky lies.

I struggle off the tee. If I can hit my driver straight, then I'm usually playing well.

I typically opt for a fade when I'm hitting into greens. It's just an easier shot to control.

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

A lot more variables in golf. But the biggest thing is like just routine. Like I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players, is for me I really rely on my routine every single day when I get ready for games and how I prepare.

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.

A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.

I think the way the greens are, you need to be very accurate with your irons. Whether there's wind or not, the most important thing out here is being able to control the distance of your irons and the direction. I've done that pretty well the last couple of days.

I'm sure you have a hole at your course where you love to hit the tee shot. You can't wait to get up there and bomb away because the fairway is wide, or the hole always plays downwind.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

I think my putting could be better, my short game.

Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done.

I don't know how many times I've been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn't matter. It's only the next shot that matters.

You just have to drive it in the fairways. If you miss fairways, it's easy to make big numbers.

Being in the fairway, I think the fairways are a little bit more overrated.

You have to have fine motor control to make putts when you need them the most. That's why golf is such a challenge - you go from extreme power to slowing down and making putts when you need them.

My strength is short game. I love the creative side to it. You can hit a wedge a million different ways. The flop is my fave.

Golf doesn't really have many big guys.