Golf will grow so long as it’s fun.

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

I never hesitated to promote someone I didn't like. The comfortable assistant - the nice guy you like to go on fishing trips with - is a great pitfall. Instead I looked for those sharp, scratchy, harsh, almost unpleasant guys who see and tell you about things as they really are. If you can get enough of them around you, and have patience enough to hear them out, there is no limit to where you can go.

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

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

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

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.