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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 which grows on the player the more frequently he visits it.
Alister MacKenzie
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Alister MacKenzie
Age: 63 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 30
Died: 1934
Died: January 6
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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 there such a glorious combination of rocky coast, sand dunes, pine woods and cypress trees.
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The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players to improve their game, and never becomes monotonous.
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I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number.
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I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.
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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 is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.
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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.
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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 if we took more than two hours to play a round. Today it not infrequently takes over three hours.
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On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
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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 indistinguishable from nature itself.
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