Tom Watson Quotes

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.

I have never been able to play consistently with soft hands.

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

If I could be like Happy Gilmore or Kyle Berkshire, hitting over 400 yards and hitting it straight? That is a massive, massive advantage. So I set out to do that, and I've been healthier and stronger ever since.

I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer.

The golf swing is very, very rhythmic. There's a certain tempo to it, just like in music.

I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.

When I fall behind, my swing changes.

My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

I would say that my downswing mirrors the path of my backswing pretty closely.

I will fall in love with any golf course that you have to drive the ball straight. You understand what I'm saying? That's my advantage. My advantage wasn't putting. In fact, I wasn't even a great putter or a good putter.

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

When I stay athletic with good posture and get the club away in a good position, I get through it better.

I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!