Amateur Career
Crane was born in Portland, Oregon. He was age five when his grandfather taught him how to play golf, and he grew up playing at the nearby Portland Golf Club where Ben Hogan won the 1945 Portland Open. He graduated from Beaverton High School in 1994 and went on to attend Baylor University in Texas but did not play golf there. He later played golf and graduated from the University of Oregon. He turned professional in 1999.
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