St. Andrews is my favorite place to play golf. I've said it many times. I love the design. I love how there is always a bunker in play. And every time you play, it is always a little bit different. There are so many angles out there. It is beautifully designed. And so much fun to play.
Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.
This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.
Playing the DP World Tour Championship at the Earth Course is always a great week.
I felt like, by the end of the week in the U.S. Amateur, I was never aiming at a flag; I was just hitting it at slopes and just letting the natural contours take over.
I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.
A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.
TPC Louisiana, where the Zurich Classic is held, is an outstanding course.
Happy birthday to Arnold Palmer, who turned 82. That's 41 years iced tea and 41 years lemonade.
I would like to work 50 Masters Tournaments.
If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.
Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
Oakmont, you've got to be playing slope.
You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.
Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared ground and into a hole which is of sufficient size to accomodate it by a good margin. Simple that is, provided there is no limit upon the time or the number of strokes required.
Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.
Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world.
Pace of play has been an issue for golf at all levels for a long time and I'm committed to being a part of the solution, not the problem.
Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.
I enjoy hard golf courses.
I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.
Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.
It's important to dabble in things that interest you, and for me, I'm interested in the tech space that is here in Silicon Valley, fashion and golf.
I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads.
The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.
