Golf Course Construction Quotes

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

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.

Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true.

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

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

There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of design became fundamental because of what's here. And it happened accidentally. Or maybe accidentally on purpose.

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.

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

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.

You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.

My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.