Saturday, April 08, 2006

What is Ben Crenshaw's Secret in the 2006 Masters golf tournament?

Whatever Ben Crenshaw's secret is for the first two rounds of this 2006 Masters golf tournament, we certainly wouldn't mind having a little for our own golf game.

Look at Crenshaw's tournament log starting here in 1995 when Crenshaw WON the masters
http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/players/Ben+Crenshaw/24/log?season=1995
and you will see that in the course of the next 10 years he dropped completely out of sight.

His current appearance at this years Masters, tied for 10th with rounds of 71 and 72 for a 143 total and only 5 strokes away from the leader Chad Campbell is this year's Master's best story by a "long shot", to pun it, thus far.

It is a near miracle and gives guys like me hope that I will shoot a 65 somewhere in tournament play this year, which is my goal. Let's see how close I get. If Crenshaw can do it, so can we all. I'm only 6 six or so years older. No big difference. Age is an illusion - sometimes.

Update: And here is the answer. We all need a mentor, and in Crenshaw's case, it is his old caddie, Carl Jackson (as an alter ego for Harvey Penick - and for some reason I think of Jimmy Stewart here...) Read the story here. That is the difference between 70 and 80 - someone who knows your swing and tells you where you are making errors. I'm thinking that this is Nick Faldo's problem.... and maybe that of many other pro golfers too, who have lost their touch, perhaps because they got big heads and thought they no longer needed someone who could mentor them to be champions.

Basically, this is one of the most important lessons of life, not just in golf. We all need mentors. Always. That is the key to success. We can't see ourselves, but other people can.

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