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 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

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 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

On the value of blind shots to golf course design.

- 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…

- Alister Mackenzie

I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number.

- 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…

- 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…

- Alister Mackenzie