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 CRENSHAWIf 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.
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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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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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 feel like I’ve won the tournament.
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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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As a golfer, you feel like you’re perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it’s very difficult.
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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 game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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