Quotes About St. Andrews Golf Course

#1. 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

#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. 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

#4. The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I believe that most websites suck because HiPPOs create them. HiPPO is an acronym for the "Highest Paid Person's Opinion.

Avinash Kaushik

#8. very rarely does change come in the form you imagined it would. When you're in the cocoon you never know what kind of butterfly is gonna come flying out.

Ron Perlman

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

Sam Snead

#10. I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

Matthew Rhys

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Jack Nicklaus

#14. I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

Craig Kilborn

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Harry Von Zell

#18. I've had the big ups and the big downs.

Juice Newton

#19. It's the little mistakes that lead to big mistakes.

Pittacus Lore

#20. Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.

Donald Trump

#21. 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

#22. Call anguish
anguish, and despair
despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to Doom.

Charlotte Bronte

#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. 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

#25. Now must we sing and sing the best we can,
But first you must be told your character:
Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.

William Butler Yeats