Sitting in the Turtle Bar at Ballyneal waiting for the temps to get back to double digits I came across this quote:
Speaking about the greens at St. Andrew's -
""Oh, they were fast! It was quite a different kind of golf really. You had to invent all sorts of approach shots to get the ball near the hole, and when you were playing in a stiff wind - and you did very often - this doubled the difficulty. On the old, hard, fast courses golf was a more exacting game, and, in a way, a more fascinating one. We've permitted ourselves to go too far in the other direction. With our soft, holding greens of today, golf has become almost entirely target golf. You fly your shot right to your target and it settles where it lands. I believe that the bounce of the ball should be a part of the game, and when you play a fast, resilient course it is. Then you must improvise all sorts of shots to cope with the terrain. I know that some of those little pitches, and pitch-and-runs - the ones that come off successfully - gave me as much satisfaction as any shots I ever played"
Author - "I could listen to _______ all day.