Tom Watson Golf Quotations

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

Golf will grow so long as it’s fun.

He just keeps on winning. He's got a perfect body for a golf swing. When he's got his swing under control, he's always the man to beat out here. He's so accurate. I don't see him slowing down too much. He's amazing. He's 60, but he's going to continue to win.

You don't win golf tournaments when you do that.

That's great. The golf course is long for us old folks.

That's terrific. The golf is long for us old folks, and that's a heck of a score.

The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and you can't do this in basketball or football or baseball. But in golf, it's a longer live sport.

It takes a lot of money to play golf, ... and we want to be a sport for everybody. The First Tee is one way to introduce young people to golf.

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

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.

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

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is a big wrinkle on the other side. Then you iron that one out, turn it over and there is yet another wrinkle.

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.