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.
BEN CRENSHAWI 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.
More Ben Crenshaw Quotes
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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 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 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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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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As a golfer, you feel like you’re perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it’s very difficult.
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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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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 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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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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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’m about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right.
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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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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 game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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