Notice
The suggestion book will now be kept
behind the bar and available therefore
from the staff, who have been instructed
not to release the book to members who
have been drinking excessively.
Jon Bennett, Secretary
Sign posted in the 110-year old clubhouse of the Leven Course in Scotland,
the twelfth oldest golf club in the world.
Scotland Where Golf Is Great
James W. Finegan
October, 2012
I could take out of my life everything except my experiences at St. Andrews and I would
still have a rich and full life.
When you have made me aware on many occasions that you have a kindly feeling toward me, and when you have honored me by every means at your command, then when I call you my friends I am at once affirming my high regard and affection for you and my trust in the sincerity of your expression. And so, my fellow citizens of St. Andrews, it is with this appreciation of the full measure of the work that I salute you as my friends.
-Unscripted remarks at the ceremony on being made a freeman of the Burgh of St. Andrews
Bobby Jones
Younger Graduation Hall
St. Andrews
1958
“I had trouble getting the butterflies to fly in formation.”
On his nerves while playing in a final group for the first time on the PGA Tour.
William McGirt-PGA Pro
Golf Magazine
September, 2012
Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect. Nor is this to be wondered at when we consider that the more fatuously vacant the mind is, the better for play…Next to the idiotic, the dull unimaginative mind is the best for golf.
Sir Walter Simpson
The Art of Golf (1887)
Quoted in: Grounds For Golf
Geoff Shackelford (2003)
The humor of golf is a divine comedy in the deeper sense. Like all sources of laughter it lies in contrast and paradox; in the thought of otherwise grave men gravely devoting hours and money to a technique which so often they, apparently alone, do not know they can never master. The solemnity of the eternal failure is vastly comic. The perpetualness of their hope is nobly humorous.
R. C. Robertson-Glaskow (1901-1965)
Quoted in: Grounds For Golf
Geoff Shackelford (2003)
In the Coore-Crenshaw theology, the cardinal sin of golf course architecture is anything that appears to be forced or contrived or “thought out”. The hand of the architect should be invisible-and this takes much labor and patience and discipline. “We don’t want our holes to look like golf holes,” Bill says, “They should look like landscapes which just happen to include a golf hole”.
Dream Golf
Stephen Goodwin
2010
The courses…..in the United States have architectural and maintenance tools unavailable at links courses: trees; man-made water hazards; irrigation and overseeding for uniformly thick rough; amped green speeds……
Rota courses have the basics: distance; direction of play, primarily off the tee; ground shaping, such as ridges and hollows; cutting heights, particularly around greens; bunkers; and the occasional prayer for rain to make the fescue pop and wind to fortify the challenge.
Brett Avery
Hollowed Ground
Golf World
July, 2012
The name of the Lord is invoked many more times on a Sunday on a golf course than it is in church. It’s His fault really. I firmly believe the game was invented by the Irish and given to the Scots as a joke, and they took it too seriously.
David Feherty
Golf World
Lipouts
July, 2012
On his mental approach to shooting 68 on Saturday to tie for the lead in the pressure packed 2012 U.S. Open.
“I came to the course today intent on two emotions. Positive emotions and neutral emotions.”
Graeme McDowell
June, 2012
A physicist can describe the perfect golf swing and write it down in scientific language, but the smart golfer doesn’t read it. The smart golfer gives it to his opponent to contemplate.
Fran Pirozollo, Sports Psychologist
May, 2012
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