Golf Course Planning Quotes

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

Golf course design is exciting.

The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.