If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
I didn't learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments,… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
I've worked with it. I took three putts and hit the first one about 3 inches fat. The second one, I hit… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you're making a golf swing.… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
[Isao Aoki] is one of the three best players in the world from 100yards. Maybe the best. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses. — Tom Watson Copy Share
I hope that I've been able to treat people with the respect they've shown me. That's basically the tenet you try to live by.… — Tom Watson Copy Share
I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't… — Tom Watson Copy Share
I love the competition, and if I can continue to compete and give myself a chance to win tournaments, I'll still play out here.… — Tom Watson Copy Share
Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I… — Tom Watson Copy Share
When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that… — Tom Watson Copy Share
From the time I won the Kansas City Match Play championship at age 14, I never wanted to be anything but a golfer. — Tom Watson Copy Share
My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is a big… — Tom Watson Copy Share
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. — Tom Watson Copy Share
I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have. — Tom Watson Copy Share
Sometimes you have to lose major championships before you can win them. It's the price you pay for maturing. The more times you can… — Tom Watson Copy Share
I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win. — Tom Watson Copy Share
My career was one of just taking it step by step. I didn't know how I was gonna fare on the professional circuit when… — Tom Watson Copy Share
I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14… — Tom Watson Copy Share
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