Tom Watson Quotes

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special 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.

After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

But we do have a golf course near by and I play fairly regularly.

Golf course design is exciting.

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.

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.

I hate golf to be tricked up. To me it's a fun game.

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

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

As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

When you're on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you're with and who you're playing with, people want each other to do well.

TPC Louisiana, where the Zurich Classic is held, is an outstanding course.

I would like to work 50 Masters Tournaments.

I've had it with the USGA and the way they run their tournaments. The USGA loves to embarrass guys who play in their tournaments.

I enjoy hard golf courses.