American - Athlete | September 4, 1949 -
I didn't learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments, I still struggled with consistency, and I relied on my strengths, which were hitting the ball long and high, and I could chip and putt with the best of 'em.
Tom Watson
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It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.
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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.
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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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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 love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.
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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.
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I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.
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You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.
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