Tom Watson Quotes

Amateur golf is so much fun.

You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

I didn't know much about golf growing up.

The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.

I have many golfer friends whom I play with, including my good friend Ian Poulter, a professional golfer who's coming to Asia to play in a few tournaments.

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.

How can you get tired of playing golf?

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

I started playing in '98, but I got hooked by playing celebrity golf tournaments. Tiger had a lot to do with it - his passion, the way that he plays. He's unique and different, and he inspired a lot of my passion. It's a sport you can't master. If you're an athlete, you can do almost anything, but golf is not like that.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

Golf is just for fun. I have no time to be a pro golfer, not even after F1. I think it's too late and I'm too old to learn now. Golf is just a hobby and maybe I can improve a little bit more.

Golf is such a wonderful game. I love it to death.

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

My dad was a really good golfer, and he just taught me how to play.

I played other sports, so when I played golf, I wanted to have fun. And hitting it far is fun.

I just go out and play golf.

When it comes to the golf industry, I know that people see me as a gimmick.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.