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Golf course design is exciting.

If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic.

Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

Golf is one of the greatest games in the world, not just on the course but what it can teach you off the course, the morals, stuff like that.