Words matter. These are the best Tom Watson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I didn’t learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments, I still struggled with consistency, and I relied on my strengths, which were hitting the ball long and high, and I could chip and putt with the best of ’em.
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 I qualified. I didn’t know whether I was gonna make a dime. I didn’t know anything but this one thing: I had some dreams, and I was gonna work harder than anybody out here to ply my trade.
If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.
It’s time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.
Golf will grow so long as it’s fun.
Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don’t drive the ball on the fairway, you’re dead. You’re done.
I’m very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don’t worry about anything that I can’t control. That’s a really good lesson in life.
My father wasn’t a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn’t push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.
You don’t have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.
Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I could jump off something six feet high and land like a cat, no problem. Well, today I can’t jump off anything higher than two feet without it just killing me.
We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.
I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.
The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.
The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and you can’t do this in basketball or football or baseball. But in golf, it’s a longer live sport.
The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you’re making a golf swing. Your neck, your spine, your hands, your knees, everything.
Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.
A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.
From the time I won the Kansas City Match Play championship at age 14, I never wanted to be anything but a golfer.
I’m not accepting of whiners.
