I do not think I could go on living unless I felt that one day I might win the Open Championship at St. Andrews.
BEN CRENSHAWIt’s Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.
More Ben Crenshaw Quotes
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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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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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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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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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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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The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don’t think there’s anything like it in North America.
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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’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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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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Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.
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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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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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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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As a golfer, you feel like you’re perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it’s very difficult.
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