Links Golf Quotes

St. Andrews is my favorite place to play golf. I've said it many times. I love the design. I love how there is always a bunker in play. And every time you play, it is always a little bit different. There are so many angles out there. It is beautifully designed. And so much fun to play.

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

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.

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

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 grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.

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.

It's quite nice to play on a golf course that, even though it is links, that there's not much wind, which is good.

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

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

I just love when I'm playing Northumberland and I'm on the back nine and I see the water and the link bridge.

Whenever I dream of playing a perfect round of golf, which I rarely do more than a dozen times a day, I picture myself on one of my favorite British Open-style links, and in particular the great courses of the west of Ireland, whose holes flow through naturally bunkered dunesland never far from the sight or sound of surf.