BEN CRENSHAW
Masters debut: 1972
“My fi rst Masters in 1972, I watched the
Honorary Starters that year and it was Jock
Hutchison and Freddie McLeod. Freddie McLeod
won the 1908 US Open, and I think Jock won
the 1921 British Open and they were 88 and 86,
respectively. That is one of my dear memories ...
they hit it of and went down the hill.”JIMMY WALKER
Masters debut: 2014
“I think for anybody in their fi rst time, this is a
golf tournament that you’ve watched your whole
career on TV.
“It’s probably one of the fi rst places that you go
and you play it for the fi rst time but you feel like
you’ve played it quite a few times just from all the
tournaments you’ve watched and the shots; you
get out into the fairway, you’re like, oh, if I hit it
up to the top left, it will feed to the top right. So
you feel like you’ve seen a lot of the golf course
without playing it.”STEVE STRICKER
Masters debut: 1996
“It’s (The Masters) always been from day
one, when you got out on Tour, that this was the
tournament that was most looked at in a way that
you wanted to be a part of. It meant probably the
most when you qualifi ed for it.
“I can remember which tournament qualifi ed
me for this tournament. It was the ‘95 U.S. Open,
I fi nished high enough, I don’t know, 12th, I think
and that qualifi ed me for the ‘96 Masters.
“It’s a tough tournament to get into. It’s one
that’s deep in history and guys keep telling you,
before you even come here, how nerve wracking,
how intimidating some of this course can be. So
this reputation that it has, and it’s rightly so, I
guess. It gets in your head, I think, at times.”GEOFF OGILVY
Masters debut: 2006
“The very fi rst visit you ever have to Augusta is
a pretty special visit.
“It’s just the whole mystique about the place.
You’ve been looking forward your whole life justTHE FIRST
YEAR YOU GO TO
AUGUSTA, YOU’RE A
BIT OF A TOURIST ...
YOU GET THAT OUT
OF YOUR SYSTEM
AFTER YOUR FIRST
YEAR OR SO
- GEOFF OGILVY
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