Quotes About Jack Nicklaus

If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.

I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn't like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do. There's only one really reliable way to curve the ball: Change your hand position at address.

Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.

If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

I'm not getting into a public debate with Jack Nicklaus.

The game of golf was bigger than Jack Nicklaus when Jack was dominating the game.

Jack Nicklaus learned how to play in major championships and I think that was a massive thing. That was half the battle.

When Jack Nicklaus won the Masters in 1986, it was mind-blowing. How in the world could a 46-year-old win the Masters?

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.

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.

He plays with a style with which I am not personally familiar