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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Lots of bittersweet things have happened to me since Bruce's diagnosis in January. The bitterness is that there's nothing to hang on to. Your hope is to find an island before you run out of time.
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So I guess those two aspects kind of counter-balanced each other. It was an adventurous round, let's put it that way.
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Someday I'll tell my grandkids I played in the same tournament as Tiger Woods, ... We are witnessing a phenomenon here that the game may never, ever see again.
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I'm a little bit worried about the driver. That driver was really a great driver, the best driver I ever had in my life.
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If I said yes, it would be an empty promise.
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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.
When you don't make a bogey, you're happy,
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This tour is name-driven, always has been and always will be. Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead carried the ball on the early part of the Senior Tour and they made it work. Then we had (Lee) Trevino come on and Jack (Nicklaus) played a little bit. We have to try a little bit harder, because maybe we don't have the names of that type.
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It's really kind of rough right there, and I think that will add a lot to that corner, ... When people come to town, they'll see a new building and they'll see progress. And that's what we want.
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That's terrific. The golf is long for us old folks, and that's a heck of a score.
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That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.
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It was kind of a hot and cold day, ... It was very hot, as I hit the ball within a foot of the hole four times today. But my play off the tee was not very good.
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It was kind of a hot and cold day,
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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.