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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

Ben Crenshaw

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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Golf Sports Winning
As a golfer, you feel like you’re perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it’s very difficult.
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Golfers Like Racks You
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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Golf Sports Thinking
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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Fate Feelings Good
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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Distance Ears Golf
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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Day One Thinking Winning
It’s Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.
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Golf Stars War
The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don’t think there’s anything like it in North America.
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Country Masterpiece Thinking
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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Couple Fishing Golf
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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Ball Feet Missing
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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Golf Missing Secret
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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Games Golf Integrity
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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Golf Play Shoes
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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Fun Golf Play
Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.
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Everything Hale Wells
I feel like I’ve won the tournament.
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Feels Tournament Won

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