Golf Course Management Quotes

From 1975-'79, I worked for PGA professional Tony Bruno. For five years I watched, lost in admiration, as Tony ran the golf shop at Battleground Country Club in Manalapan, N.J. Tony put in 80-hour weeks doing what nearly 29,000 men and women club pros do every day: Keeping the game alive with a smile.

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.

TPC Louisiana, where the Zurich Classic is held, is an outstanding course.

I would like to work 50 Masters Tournaments.

I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.

Oakmont, you've got to be playing slope.

Pace of play has been an issue for golf at all levels for a long time and I'm committed to being a part of the solution, not the problem.

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.

Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.

A lot more variables in golf. But the biggest thing is like just routine. Like I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players, is for me I really rely on my routine every single day when I get ready for games and how I prepare.

I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.

I enjoy hard golf courses.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

I have made really some significant deals because I play golf.

Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.

The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

But we do have a golf course near by and I play fairly regularly.

I've had it with the USGA and the way they run their tournaments. The USGA loves to embarrass guys who play in their tournaments.