Golf Course Layout Quotes

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.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

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.

My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

TPC Louisiana, where the Zurich Classic is held, is an outstanding course.

The hardest weeks for me are when I get to a course that I've never been to before or one that has been through a redesign.

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

I enjoy hard golf courses.

You can only play one hole at a time.

I think you only hold U.S. Opens on great courses.

I haven't played a full round of golf yet, but I did make two pars my first time out on a golf course.

I think every part of your game, on this golf course, needs to be good. You've got to hit every club in the bag. You need to drive it well, hit your irons well, and always, if you want to have a chance to win a Major, then you've got to putt it well.

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

When you're on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you're with and who you're playing with, people want each other to do well.

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.

If I played golf, I'd be on the golf course every day, but I just can't wear those dumb pants.

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

Golf course design is exciting.

There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of design became fundamental because of what's here. And it happened accidentally. Or maybe accidentally on purpose.

I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.