If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

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

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.

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

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

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