Ben Crenshaw Quotes About Golf

• I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Distance, Golf, Ears

• A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Golf, Play, Shoes

• 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.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Sports, Golf, Winning

• 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.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Sports, Golf, Thinking

• 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.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Integrity, Golf, Games

• 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.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Golf, World, Reason

• I had a 15th club in my bag.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Golf, Bags, Clubs

  "Crenshaw a Master Again / '84 winner, now 43, holds off Love for win" by Scott Ostler, www.sfgate.com. April 10, 1995.

• It's Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Stars, War, Golf

• The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Golf, Games, Feels

• My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Couple, Golf, Fishing

• 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.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Heart, Sleep, Loss

• I don't have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It's either going to miss or go in.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Golf, Missing, Secret

• 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.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Golf, People, World

• 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

  Ben Crenshaw

  Fun, Golf, Play

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