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.
BEN CRENSHAWI had a 15th club in my bag.
More Ben Crenshaw Quotes
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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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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 about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right.
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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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I had a few miracles happen out there today.
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I feel like I’ve won the tournament.
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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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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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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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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 had a 15th club in my bag.
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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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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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As a golfer, you feel like you’re perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it’s very difficult.
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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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