25 Quotes by Peter Dawson

Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open,

It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties.

You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.

The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.

We have nine venues that are active for us and the way it seems to work is that the Open comes to St Andrews about every five years and to each of the others about every 10.

I am delighted that a qualification route has now been established for the best women players to gain access to the championship, competing alongside men on the same courses and from the same tees.

Because of the history of the Old Course, moving hazards is not the option it would be at many other places, ... You can't simply move a bunker here and there on The Old Course. All that leaves is to move tees.

If it really offends people then we would take it out. In this instance, the wording isn't serving any purpose, so I would support taking it out.

What we've seen is that he went ahead of the pack very early in his career. There was an element of catching up by other players. He raised the standard. And now, he seems to be stepping forward again. We'll see if the others step up to the challenge.