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.

My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is a big wrinkle on the other side. Then you iron that one out, turn it over and there is yet another wrinkle.

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

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

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.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.