Tom Watson Quotes

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.

Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world.

St. Andrews by far is my favorite golf course in the world. It's where the game all started, it's why we have 18 holes instead of 22 and I think the history behind St. Andrews is amazing. There is no other golf course in the world that can say that every great player who has ever played the game has played that golf course.

When one thinks of golf and Scotland, the first thing that comes to mind is usually St. Andrews, especially the famed Old Course.

It's quite nice to play on a golf course that, even though it is links, that there's not much wind, which is good.

St. Andrews is the Home of Golf and the greatest course in the world. Any time you can win at St. Andrews would be special. It's every golfer's dream to win out here.

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

I love Quail Hollow. I think it's one of the big boy golf courses we play. I just don't think there's really a bad hole on it.

I've never played Cypress. And everybody says it's amazing. That's one course I'd like to play.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

Since I was a small boy, I was always around the game. I don't play golf much myself, but I love watching it. My father has played golf all his life.

I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

The AAC at Royal Melbourne was a wonderful memory for me. I had a slightly disappointing finish, but I gained a lot of experience by playing in the last group.

I enjoy coming to Scotland, and my favourite memory has to be my first Open at Carnoustie. Coming over from a small town and playing in something so big to golf and y'all.

The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.

The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play.

I've played golf since I was fourteen. I like how no two rounds are ever the same. And I get to be out in nature... and hang out with my buddies.

I just love when I'm playing Northumberland and I'm on the back nine and I see the water and the link bridge.

That is what I love about golf, you can go play somewhere where all the greats have played.

My dad was a scratch golfer growing up. When I'm on the road, I always bring my clubs with me.

Par is your friend out there. Doesn't matter what holes they are.

One place I'd love to go is Augusta. My uncle's been to watch the Masters a couple of times and said you don't realise on television how hilly it is. When you walk the course, you're hiking up hills, but on TV it all seems so manicured.

I first took up golf in 1994, and used to play intermittently. I couldn't devote as much time to it as I would've liked.