Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.
BEN CRENSHAWThe areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don’t think there’s anything like it in North America.
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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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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Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.
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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 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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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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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 had a few miracles happen out there today.
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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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As a golfer, you feel like you’re perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it’s very difficult.
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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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I feel like I’ve won the tournament.
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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 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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