25 Quotes by Peter Dawson

It's been a long time since I've had a really big win like this so I'm ecstatic.

The new rules on eligibility conform to two guiding principles: that opening up the championship was based on ability and not on gender and that we kept the field as strong as possible. I would be absolutely delighted to see a woman qualify for the 2006 Open.

I personally hope we will see women enter the championship. We didn't open the event up to them in the hope they wouldn't come. It's a shame if none of them takes up the opportunity.

I have to confess we have made a mistake on that, ... We could stand accused of making it totally inconvenient for players competing in America, so we are going to adjust the dates but they will be that week.

I really felt for him on the line but I take a win when I get one,

I completely disagree. The Road Hole bunker has never been the same from one Open to the next. To say it has been ruined from what it was is completely false. I think that bunker has improved from what it was.

The difficulty we had was establishing equivalence between the men's and women's game.