There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows older.
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistingu… - Alister Mackenzie
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistingu…
- Alister Mackenzie
Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably long time i… - Alister Mackenzie
Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably long time i…
The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates pla… - Alister Mackenzie
The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates pla…
Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it i… - Alister Mackenzie
Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it i…
On the value of blind shots to golf course design. - Alister Mackenzie
On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number. - Alister Mackenzie
I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number.
One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health of pleasurable e… - Alister Mackenzie
One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health of pleasurable e…
A good golf course is like good music or good anything else; it is not necessarily a course which appeals the first time one plays over it, but one w… - Alister Mackenzie
A good golf course is like good music or good anything else; it is not necessarily a course which appeals the first time one plays over it, but one w…
I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the world is… - Alister Mackenzie
I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the world is…
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