I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas’s designs and were real proud of what we did. It’s a sad situation now.
BEN CRENSHAWI know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what’s on the inside edge of the transparent one
More Ben Crenshaw Quotes
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I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There’s no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way
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You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.
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I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what’s on the inside edge of the transparent one
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My golf game’s gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.
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I’m about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right.
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The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don’t think there’s anything like it in North America.
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A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.
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Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.
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I feel like I’ve won the tournament.
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I had a 15th club in my bag.
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I don’t have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It’s either going to miss or go in.
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It’s Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.
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I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I’d lost my faithful ally. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died.
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As a golfer, you feel like you’re perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it’s very difficult.
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I had a few miracles happen out there today.
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