‘There should be two ways to play a hole, one for the physically strong, and one for the man not so strong. The holes should be trapped so that par golf depends upon skill rather than physical strength.”
Donald Ross
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“Do not let certain standards become an obsession. Quality, not length; interest, not the number of holes; distinction, not the size in the greens - these are things worth striving for.”
Robert Hunter
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“Great strategic holes primarily challenge thought. Knowledge of what to do is not immediate. It must be sought. The line of skill is not obvious but is concealed in the line of thought.”
Max Behr
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“The merit of any golf hole is not judged by its length but rather by its interest and its variety as elective play is apperant. It isn’t how far, but how good!”
AW Tillinghast
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“The true hazard should draw the player towards it, should invite the golfer to come as near as he dare to the fire without burning his fingers. The man who can afford to take risks is the man who should gain the advantage.”
John Low
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“The risk of going into a bunker is self-imposed, so there is no reason why a player should condemn a bunker as unfair.”
CB MacDonald
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“Don’t worry about par. The practice of printing par figures is literally a mental hazard.”
Bobby Jones
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“The object of golf architecture is to give an intelligent purpose to the striking of a golf ball”
Max Behr
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“A man may be a very good golfer and yet know little about golf architects and golf architecture.”
Charles Banks
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“The golf architect is not at all concerned with chastising bad play. On the contrary, it is his business to arrange the field of play as to stimulate interest, and hence, the province of hazards is to chasten the too ambitious.”
Max Behr
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“Immediately when we attempt to standardize sizes, shapes, and distances we lose more than half the pleasure of the game.”
H.S.Colt
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“The best golfing grasses vary in color. They may be red, brown, blue, dark green, light green, yellow and at times even white and gray. A golf course that is consisted entirely of one shade of green would be merely ugly. There is great charm and beauty in the varying shades of color on a golf course.”
Alister Mackenzie
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“The great value of a hazard is not that it catches a shot that has been missed but that it forces a miss upon the timid player; its psychological worth is greater than it penal value.”
Bobby Jones
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Thanks to Geoff Shackelford - “Lines of Charm”
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