Ben Crenshaw Golf Quotations

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.

The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

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

There is a little bit of Ben Hogan in that swing. The way he attacks the ball. He's played some great golf in his career.

I had a 15th club in my bag.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

There's no other golf course like this, anywhere -- never has been. The greens and the challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough, and you have to manage shots. There's nothing stylized about it all.