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

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

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

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

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.

Sometimes you have to lose major championships before you can win them. It's the price you pay for maturing. The more times you can put yourself in pressure situations, the more times you compete, the better off you are.

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