The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
BEN CRENSHAWThe game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
More Ben Crenshaw Quotes
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Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.
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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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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 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 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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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’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 feel like I’ve won the tournament.
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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 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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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 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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I had a 15th club in my bag.
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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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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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