Quotes About St Andrews Golf

#1. From our myopia arose our dystopia.

Anthony Marais

#2. On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game.

Arnold Palmer

#3. One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

Abraham Pais

#4. The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.

Ben Crenshaw

#5. But of course we must never forget, Mrs. Pither, that there's a better world coming. This life is only a time of trial - just to strengthen us and teach us to be patient, so that we'll be ready for Heaven when the time comes.

George Orwell

#6. I was a huge 'Deadwood' fan because I'm a huge David Milch fan, so I've always wanted to play something like Calamity Jane on 'Deadwood' and just be the biggest Western tomboy girl, ever.

Emily Rose

#7. If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.

Stewart Cink

#8. St. Andrews is the Home of Golf and the greatest course in the world. Any time you can win at St. Andrews would be special. It's every golfer's dream to win out here.

Peter Uihlein

#9. The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.

Sam Snead

#10. Hagen said that no-one remembers who finished second. But they still ask me if I ever think about that putt I missed to win the 1970 Open at St. Andrews. I tell them that some times it doesn't cross my mind for a full five minutes.

Doug Sanders

#11. According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.

Herbert Wind

#12. If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.

Jack Nicklaus

#13. Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Athenaeus

#14. When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

Jack Nicklaus

#15. The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#16. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.'- Buddha

Elias Axmar

#17. To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget.

Tiger Woods

#18. If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.

Bobby Jones

#19. Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

Rory McIlroy

#20. Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.

Paulo Coelho

#21. The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Oscar Wilde

#22. Where's the rest of me?

Casey Robinson

#23. When one thinks of golf and Scotland, the first thing that comes to mind is usually St. Andrews, especially the famed Old Course.

Raymond Bonner

#24. What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.

Tom Brokaw

#25. There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of design became fundamental because of what's here. And it happened accidentally. Or maybe accidentally on purpose.

Jack Nicklaus

#26. In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#27. Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same.

Robin S. Sharma

#28. I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#29. How you do anything is how you do everything,

Neil Strauss