Tom Watson Quotes

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

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 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.

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

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

Golf is a good time, valued time.

I don't play golf.

This is going to sound so boring, but I play golf in Hertfordshire at a club called Sandy Lodge just by Moor Park Tube station. It's where I unwind and don't think about anything else.

I play golf but very badly.

Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.

I love America. I wanted to play golf.

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.

If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.

I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.

The good chip allows you to whistle while you walk in the dark alleys of golf.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

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.

The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.

All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.