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I am fully aware that more and more golfers have come to intensely dislike the stretching of seemingly all modern courses to seven thousand and more yards, not only because they can’t handle length, but because of the higher construction and maintenance costs involved…the developer mindset that has evolved from the massive overuse of perhaps the single emptiest phrase in the entire history of golf, namely, “Championship Course.” JACK NICKLAUS

I am fully aware that more and more golfers have come to intensely dislike the stretching of seemingly all modern courses to seven thousand and more yards, not only because they can’t handle length, but because of the higher construction and maintenance costs involved…the developer mindset that has evolved from the massive overuse of perhaps the single emptiest phrase in the entire history of golf, namely, “Championship Course.” JACK NICKLAUS

I am fully aware that more and more golfers have come to intensely dislike the stretching of seemingly all modern courses to seven thousand and more yards, not only because they can’t handle length, but because of the higher construction and maintenance costs involved…the developer mindset that has evolved from the massive overuse of perhaps the single emptiest phrase in the entire history of golf, namely, “Championship Course.” JACK NICKLAUS

Is it not high time that Authority placed a definite limit upon the golfer's insatiable greed for distance? Does not history teach that an art is ever ruled by a small intelligent minority? Why, then, pay attention to the ever-unthinking majority? Let them have their damn ball; but if they wish to enter the lists of the academy of the Amateur and Open Championships then they must use implements that will compel them to reflect in their play the best traditions of the sport that have been inherited from the past. And such limitations would be in line with the practice that prevails when it comes to contests of skill in other sports.
 MAX BEHR

Is it not high time that Authority placed a definite limit upon the golfer's insatiable greed for distance? Does not history teach that an art is ever ruled by a small intelligent minority? Why, then, pay attention to the ever-unthinking majority? Let them have their damn ball; but if they wish to enter the lists of the academy of the Amateur and Open Championships then they must use implements that will compel them to reflect in their play the best traditions of the sport that have been inherited from the past. And such limitations would be in line with the practice that prevails when it comes to contests of skill in other sports.
 MAX BEHR

The Golden Years of Hogan are certainly easier for me o remember than more recent events. Like when Steve Flesch won. Or Olin Browne. Or David Frost. Or Fulton Allem. Or Tim Herron. Or that fateful interlude when if it wasn’t Keith Clearwater, it was Ian Baker-Finch. One hit wonders occasionally add a touch of charm to an annual golf event , but not when they come in droves. For those of you who cut too many history classes, the Hogan years started with the first Colonial in 1946, and it didn’t hurt a thing that Ben won the inaugural with a shocking course-record 65 in the final round.
DAN JENKINS on the Colonial

The Golden Years of Hogan are certainly easier for me o remember than more recent events. Like when Steve Flesch won. Or Olin Browne. Or David Frost. Or Fulton Allem. Or Tim Herron. Or that fateful interlude when if it wasn’t Keith Clearwater, it was Ian Baker-Finch. One hit wonders occasionally add a touch of charm to an annual golf event , but not when they come in droves. For those of you who cut too many history classes, the Hogan years started with the first Colonial in 1946, and it didn’t hurt a thing that Ben won the inaugural with a shocking course-record 65 in the final round.
DAN JENKINS on the Colonial

Hogan had once selected his “All American golf course” for Life Magazine and included the 465-yard 12th hole at Southern Hills, a dogleg left to a green protected by water and sand. [Tommy] Bolt remembered this and couldn’t wait to remind Hogan, a man he respects more than any other—they have a good friendship—that he “whipped up” on this favorite golf hole of Ben’s, and the Southern Hills members. In the four rounds, Bolt birdied the rugged 12th three times on the way to his first major title, most spectacularly in the Saturday-morning round with a soaring 3-iron second that wound up three feet from the flag. DAN JENKINS

The majority of American golf clubs are in the red, gore of the stream shovel, blood drawn by mound builders. We have learned nothing from Scotland and England where the ancient and honorable game can be enjoyed on marvelous links at one tenth the admission fees, dues, green fees, etc., that prevail in the land of the free. PERRY MAXWELL