The true word of God is written in our heart.
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number.
Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.
On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
A good golf course is like good music. It does not necessarily appeal the first time one plays it.
Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably long time if we took more than two hours to play a round. Today it not infrequently takes over three hours.
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.
There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly and decisively.
Obviously music is my first job.