Golf Films (Golf Channel) competitive start in the Masters in 2015, it also explores Crenshaw’s relationships with his caddie, Carl Jackson, in addition to his longtime teacher Harvey Penick, who passed away just days before Crenshaw would go on to claim his second green jacket. As "Golf Digest"relates, “Crenshaw's love and passion for the game generally and the Masters specifically is infectious. It often moves him to tears. ‘It occupies a lot of my thoughts,’ he said. ‘It has for a long time and it always will.’ As his wife Julie put it in the film, ‘It might be an obsession, but that's all
Open golf tournament Open golf tournament The descriptor "open" is used in a number of sports, and especially in golf, to describe a tournament that is "open" — in theory to all — rather than being closed, "i.e.", one that is restricted to a particular group. Thus, an amateur tournament, "e.g.", the U.S. Amateur, is not open, because it is, by definition, closed to professional golfers. The first precise usage of the adjective “open” in golf was in 1861 when the Prestwick Golf Club opened its Medal competition (launched the previous year for professionals only) to amateurs as well; ever since, The Open