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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.

Ben Crenshaw

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
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
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 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
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.
BEN CRENSHAW

Golf People World
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
Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.
BEN CRENSHAW

Everything Hale Wells
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
It’s Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.
BEN CRENSHAW

Golf Stars War
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 CRENSHAW

Design Ongoing Real White
The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don’t think there’s anything like it in North America.
BEN CRENSHAW

Country Masterpiece Thinking
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
The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
BEN CRENSHAW

Feel Games Golf
I feel like I’ve won the tournament.
BEN CRENSHAW

Feels Tournament Won

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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