EDITOR’S NOTE: Sam Snead won a PGA TOUR record 82 times during his remarkable career. Recently, Ben Crenshaw provided his thoughts on the legend in our Century Celebration series. We're also wondering if you have any memories to share on Sam Snead. Write your thoughts in the comments section below.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead were each born 100 years ago, and their lives eventually intersected as three of golf's legendary players. PGATOUR.COM asked another golfing great, Ben Crenshaw, to provide his thoughts on each of the three as part of our Century Celebration. Besides writing about Byron Nelson this week for the HP Byron Nelson Championship, Crenshaw also shares his thoughts below about the three players collectively. Let us know your memories and thoughts about Nelson, Hogan and Snead By Ben Crenshaw, Special to PGATOUR.COM Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. What you have are three fascinating and very different players who came along at the same time who possessed higher skills than anyone else at the time. I suppose you classify them collectively picking up the mantle after the Jones era. And that they happened to all three be born in 1912 -- at a time when so much was changing -- that is fascinating in itself. When you stand back and see all three of them, they shaped our game until Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer and Gary Player came along. I suppose there is one argument that’s for the ages -- which one of these players impressed you most -- and there are always different camps. Ben Hogan hit the ball better than anybody. Byron Nelson had his camp too. It’s hard to believe that anybody would hit the ball better than what he did. How consistent he was. Consistency, no question, marked his performances. But ability-wise and shot- making they say Sam Snead. They were just astounding, astounding players. I don’t think there’s any question in my mind that it wouldn’t matter what era they were playing in, they would have made it work despite the equipment. They were that good. I’ve seen a lot of golfers in my time, but there have never been three players who have impressed me more. Not only in the way they played and their records, but what they meant to the game. They sort of burst onto the scene in the mid 30s and took over for so long -- through the late ‘50s when their names were on everybody’s lips. What they accomplished-- individually and collectively -- was unbelievable. CLICK HERE FOR CRENSHAW’S THOUGHTS ON BYRON NELSON CLICK HERE FOR CRENSHAW’S THOUGHTS ON BEN HOGAN CLICK HERE FOR CRENSHAW'S THOUGHTS ON SAM SNEAD

By Melanie Hauser, PGATOUR.COM correspondent AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Can a 52 year old win a major? A flat-belly major. Since inquiring minds around the globe want to know, we sought out Hale Irwin on the lawn on this sun-splashed Saturday afternoon  to get his thoughts. He said yes. Heading into the weekend, Couples,  has a chance to become the oldest player -- at 52 -- to win a major and the fifth player to win majors 11 years apart. "I played my best golf at 52,'' said Irwin, who was relaxing with wife Sally. "I feel it can be done. He's playing enough golf on the regular tour to keep his mind in this mentality (PGA TOUR).'' Couples shared the second-round lead with Jason Dufner, but started the third round bogey-bogey to fall three shots behind Dufner. Couples won the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic on the Champions Tour two weeks ago, then opened with a 67 the Shell Houston Open -- a tournament he won in 2003. A rain-delayed 33 holes on Friday wore him out, but he made the cut and finished T-47. He finished fourth there in 2008 at 48 and was T-3 there in 2009 at 49. In fact, he had four top-10 finishes at age 49. Irwin won 10 times on the Champions Tour when he was 52 (1997) and and seven times at 53. He's one of four players -- Julius Boros, Ben Crenshaw and Henry Cotton are the others -- who won majors 11 years apart. Crenshaw's came here -- in 1994, then again in 1995. Irwin's were U.S. Opens -- in 1979 and 1990. Irwin watched Couples on the putting green more than an hour before his tee time. "I don't know how his back's doing, but he knows the course,'' he said. "But everyone's going to be looking at him wondering if he can win.''

By Melanie Hauser, PGATOUR.COM Correspondent

AUGUSTA, GA. -- Can it really be 40 years since Ben Crenshaw started playing here? Since Clifford Roberts greeted him in the parking lot and reminded him there was a barbershop in the clubhouse?