I’m about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right.
BEN CRENSHAWThe 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.
More Ben Crenshaw Quotes
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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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I had a 15th club in my bag.
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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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As a golfer, you feel like you’re perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it’s very difficult.
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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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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 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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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 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 feel like I’ve won the tournament.
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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 had a few miracles happen out there today.
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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 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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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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