I feel like I’ve won the tournament.
BEN CRENSHAWI do not think I could go on living unless I felt that one day I might win the Open Championship at St. Andrews.
More Ben Crenshaw Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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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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As a golfer, you feel like you’re perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it’s very difficult.
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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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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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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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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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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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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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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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I had a 15th club in my bag.
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