There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
A good golf course is like good music or good anything else; it is not necessarily a course which appeals the first time one… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast. — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number. — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
A good golf course is like good music. It does not necessarily appeal the first time one plays it. — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
