13 Quotes by Pete Dye

When you build a golf course, I always use the example of Pebble Beach. If you took the ocean away from the 18th hole, it's a good golf hole. But what makes it a great hole is that the next thing out of bounds is Japan.

Here you don't have to create anything, ... because it's already here.

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.

Originally, the water was just supposed to come into play on the right side. But we just kept digging. And then one day Alice came out and said, 'Why don't you just go ahead and make it an island?' So we did.

It's a different world when you are out on the courses. A different world altogether.

It's always fun to have a professional tournament come to your golf course.

I don't think any of us really thought of the 17th hole. It just kind of arrived. We just kept digging. Actually, I think my wife, Alice, came out one day, looked at the area and said let's just make it an island green.

I've been trying to get Mr. Finchem to lengthen 5 and 7 and 14 and 18 - and he's being a mule,

Every time you build a golf course, it’s not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.