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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf Courses Quotes
Quotes from golfers on designing courses.
These quotes come from golfers turned course designers, reflecting on childhood beginnings and the pull between personal style and audience taste. See About quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
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- Nov 07, 2020
Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see people's big green lawns. And you live in a desert! I've always remarked about the capacity of human beings to look at somewhere and move there because of its uniqueness and its beauty and then change it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
- Courses
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- Nov 07, 2020
I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Quail Hollow. I think it's one of the big boy golf courses we play. I just don't think there's really a bad hole on it.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Trump began running for president in summer 2015, he has repeatedly used his hotels and golf courses as venues for his campaign events - and paid himself for the privilege.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.
- Drinking Water
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020