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

- Tom Watson

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

- Tom Watson

Golf will grow so long as it’s fun.

- Tom Watson

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it…

- Tom Watson

Sometimes you have to lose major championships before you can win them. It's the price you pay for maturing. The more times you can put yourself in p…

- Tom Watson

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

- Tom Watson

I never hesitated to promote someone I didn't like. The comfortable assistant - the nice guy you like to go on fishing trips with - is a great pitfal…

- Tom Watson

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

- Tom Watson

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 …

- Tom Watson