Ben Hogan Quotes

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

Great touch is often written off simply as 'talent,' which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I've seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn't guarantee anything.

For years, I felt like I was just whacking at the ball, trying to see how far I could hit it, especially with the driver. Whatever the coach I was working with at the time told me to do, I would just go along with it.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.

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

If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

I will fall in love with any golf course that you have to drive the ball straight. You understand what I'm saying? That's my advantage. My advantage wasn't putting. In fact, I wasn't even a great putter or a good putter.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

Some players like to change clubs around the green to hit high or low shots. I play all of my short-game shots with my 54-degree sand wedge and change my ball position to hit it higher or lower. I think it's easier to learn one club than four.

The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.