Ben Hogan Quotes

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.

You probably don't hit as many fairway-bunker shots as you do the greenside ones, and that unfamiliarity might make you a bit nervous.

I don't know if I spent any time on a putting green when I was a kid. I was too busy hitting driver.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

I grew up on black sand greens. The best tees were old, dry cowpies, believe it or not.

My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

Golf is not easy.

Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

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.

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

I'm a golfer and have had three holes in one.

I can't even pretend to play golf.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.

I still don't get golf.

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

When I'm on with my putting, I'm as good a putter as there is, probably.