Bobby Jones Quotes

St. Andrews is the Home of Golf and the greatest course in the world. Any time you can win at St. Andrews would be special. It's every golfer's dream to win out here.

When one thinks of golf and Scotland, the first thing that comes to mind is usually St. Andrews, especially the famed Old Course.

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

St. Andrews by far is my favorite golf course in the world. It's where the game all started, it's why we have 18 holes instead of 22 and I think the history behind St. Andrews is amazing. There is no other golf course in the world that can say that every great player who has ever played the game has played that golf course.

To win at Augusta and to win The Open Championship at St. Andrews, it's hard to put it into words as a golfer, as an athlete, as a guy - I'm not rich in history, I can tell you that. I'm not a great historian.

Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world.

I like the course, the history - everything about St. Andrews.

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.

I'd happily cover the British Open every year until St. Andrews slides into the sea or Scotland runs out of beer, whichever happens first.

I love Quail Hollow. I think it's one of the big boy golf courses we play. I just don't think there's really a bad hole on it.

Par is your friend out there. Doesn't matter what holes they are.

I've always felt like I was going to win a British Open at St. Andrews. That place is suited for me.

One place I'd love to go is Augusta. My uncle's been to watch the Masters a couple of times and said you don't realise on television how hilly it is. When you walk the course, you're hiking up hills, but on TV it all seems so manicured.

I've never played Cypress. And everybody says it's amazing. That's one course I'd like to play.

If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.

When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

I don't have a favorite place to play.

I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.

No matter how you play the golf course, no matter how well you play, you're going to have to make 6 and 8 footers for par. It's just a given here.

Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as dinosaurs, the prairies, the Himalayas, the seagull, the female of the species herself, were accidental by-products of the Almighty's preoccupation with the creation of the Old Course at St. Andrews.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

Some people would rather change and some people don't. Some people don't want to be forced to stay in a certain atmosphere.