Today's easy quote

[Mark_Rowlinson]

A hole should always give one the impression that it owes its existence to its own intrinsic merits, to its individuality and character, and not, as too often happens, to the fact that it had to be there because, forsooth, there was no other place to put it.

Who wrote that?

[Jeff_Brauer]

Mark,

Heres another easy one......

"I thought I saw a puddy cat!"

[Marc Haring]

I am fairly confident on this one. It was Tweety Pie.

[Mark_Rowlinson]

I doubt many today would use the word forsooth.

[Garland Bayley]

Max Behr

[Mark_Rowlinson]

Late 19th century - it's a golf writer/commentator, not, so far as I am aware, an architect.

[Marc Haring]

True Mark. In fact I was starting to wonder if  Shylock had ever tinkered with GCA. But it was penned many years ago. I won't give the game away because I cheated and searched the quote. Turns out golfclubatlas has it listed somewhere in a course report on a famous links of the Emerald Isles.

[Tom Scupholm III]

Is it Garden G. Smith, Fom The World of Golf?

[Mark_Rowlinson]

Tom S III, Well done!  

I take it Smith only wrote - was he involved in design work at all?

[BCrosby]

That resets the bar on obscure.

[Mark_Rowlinson]

But not obscure to Tom S III.