As a golfer, you feel like you’re perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it’s very difficult.
BEN CRENSHAWI feel like I’ve won the tournament.
More Ben Crenshaw Quotes
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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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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’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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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I had a few miracles happen out there today.
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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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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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