Architect Quote by Tom Watson

After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.

— Tom Watson

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get…

— Jean Giraudoux

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

— Woodrow Wilson

If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.

— Jack Nicklaus

Real ballers don't golf.

— Rasheed Wallace

Every time you build a golf course, it’s not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.

— Pete Dye

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

Golf is golf.

— Patrick Cantlay

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…

— Jack Nicklaus

Over the years, golf has evolved from a leisurely game of stick and ball into a competitive sport for highly skilled athletes. Players not…

— Paige Spiranac

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

— Amy Alcott

Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.

— Sam Snead