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Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.

Ben Crenshaw

As a golfer, you feel like you’re perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it’s very difficult.
BEN CRENSHAW

Golfers Like Racks You
Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.
BEN CRENSHAW

Mean Player Wise
I don’t have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It’s either going to miss or go in.
BEN CRENSHAW

Golf Missing Secret
The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don’t think there’s anything like it in North America.
BEN CRENSHAW

Country Masterpiece Thinking
I feel like I’ve won the tournament.
BEN CRENSHAW

Feels Tournament Won
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.
BEN CRENSHAW

Golf Sports Winning
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.
BEN CRENSHAW

Golf Sports Thinking
A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.
BEN CRENSHAW

Golf Play Shoes
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.
BEN CRENSHAW

Heart Loss Sleep
I do not think I could go on living unless I felt that one day I might win the Open Championship at St. Andrews.
BEN CRENSHAW

Day One Thinking Winning
The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.
BEN CRENSHAW

Golf Reason World
It’s emotional for every champion who decides to step down, it’s a tough decision. It’s probably easier for some, like me. But I’m just going to try to take it in stride. It’s part of life.
BEN CRENSHAW

Decision Emotional Life
It’s Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.
BEN CRENSHAW

Golf Stars War
I’m going to leave y’all with one thought. I’m a big believer in fate. I have a good feeling about this.
BEN CRENSHAW

Fate Feelings Good
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
BEN CRENSHAW

Fun Golf Play
The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
BEN CRENSHAW

Feel Games Golf

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