Tom Watson
Tom Watson
Professional golfer who was a six-time PGA Player of the Year.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth4 September 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I could jump off something six feet high and land like a cat, no problem. Well, today I can't jump off anything higher than two feet without it just killing me.
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Bruce has been a good friend, a good companion and we've been a good team. He's also got a great sense of humor.
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I'm running for mayor because someone has to step up and give voters a viable alternative.
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They've really just bumped any short hitters out of the championship consideration equation.
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They've really bumped any short hitters out of consideration. It's more difficult for shorter hitters. The shorter hitters are faced with a lot of improper shots into greens.
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I admire Jack for many things, but especially for the way he always treated our relationship. Jack was never mean in any sense of the word -- there was no meanness in him. So at St. Andrews, coming up the last hole with him, it all hit me: the kind of man he is, the battles we had, and especially, that this was the end. . . . That was very emotional.
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You hear that winning breeds winning. But no winners are bred from losing. They learn that they don't like it.
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My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.
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My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.
A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.
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We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.
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Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done.
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I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.
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From the time I won the Kansas City Match Play championship at age 14, I never wanted to be anything but a golfer.