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

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

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

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

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

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