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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

If we are to preserve the integrity of golf as left to us by our forefathers, it is up to all of us to carry on the true spirit of the game.
BEN CRENSHAW

Games Golf Integrity
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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Couple Fishing Golf
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
Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.
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Everything Hale Wells
Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.
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Mean Player Wise
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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Golf Sports Winning
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
But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you’re looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.
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Ball Feet Missing
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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Fun Golf Play
I had a 15th club in my bag.
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Bag Club Golf
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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Golf Missing Secret
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.
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Design Ongoing Real White
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’m about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right.
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Distance Ears Golf
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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Eye Player Real
As a golfer, you feel like you’re perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it’s very difficult.
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Golfers Like Racks You
This is happening all over the world. It’s not just this golf course. Hopefully, if it stays dry, it will let a few more people in (contention). If it gets wet, though, there’s only a few people where it’s attainable.
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Golf People World
The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don’t think there’s anything like it in North America.
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Country Masterpiece Thinking
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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Golf Sports Thinking
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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Heart Loss Sleep
It’s Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.
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Golf Stars War
I feel like I’ve won the tournament.
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Feels Tournament Won
The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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Feel Games Golf
I had a few miracles happen out there today.
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Happen Miracle Today
I’m going to leave y’all with one thought. I’m a big believer in fate. I have a good feeling about this.
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Fate Feelings Good
I do not think I could go on living unless I felt that one day I might win the Open Championship at St. Andrews.
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Day One Thinking Winning

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.

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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.

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