Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.

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

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.

I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.