You Have To Love Something And Have

I've Said Many Times Before That Pebble Beach Is A Wonderful Thinking-man's Golf Course. That Is Why It Is Such A Great U.s. Open Venue.

You Have To Watch Your Handicap. My Son Steve Says, "never Make A Putt You Don't Have To."

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.

Once You Play A Tournament, You're Playing Against The Golf Course, You're Playing Against Yourself And Trying To Do The Best You Can.

I Never Hit A Shot, Not Even In Practice, Without Having A Very Sharp, In-focus Picture Of It In My Head. It's Like A Color Movie. First I 'see' Where I Want It To Finish, Nice And White And Sitting Up High On The Bright Green Grass. Then The Scene Quickly Changes And I 'see' The Ball Going There: Its Path, Trajectory, And Shape, Even Its Behavior On Landing. Then There Is This Sort Of Fadeout, And The Next Scene Shows Me Making The Kind Of Swing That Will Turn The Previous Images To Reality.