AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tom Watson only saw unity, conversation and easy laughter among 33 champions at the Masters Club dinner, seven of them now with Saudi-funded LIV Golf. Watson longs for the day golf can feel that way all year long.
Unity is a popular topic at the first major of the year because the PGA Tour has suspended LIV players for defecting to the rival circuit. The only time all the world’s best get together are at the majors, and the Masters is the first chance for that since July.
Watson said he asked Masters Chairman Fred Ridley if he could speak toward the end of the Champions Dinner on Tuesday night.
“I’m looking around the room and I’m seeing just a wonderful experience everybody is having,” Watson, a two-time Masters champion, said Thursday. “They are jovial. They are having a great time. They are laughing. And I said, ‘Ain’t it good to be together again?’”
Devout Christian doctor, 68, who punched dementia
Survivors of 2017 Ariana Grande concert bombing take legal action against UK intelligence agency
A Star in Her Own Right — Ye Shuhua Dedicates Life to Development of Nation, Astronomy
Hou Hongqin: Working Hard to Ensure Qinqiang Opera Thrives
Nadal returns to Roland Garros to practice amid doubts over fitness and form
Let 'Young Flowers' Blossom in Village
Reaping the Rewards of a Lifetime in the Fields
Delegates Realize Dreams in Countryside
Justin Timberlake set to bring his The Forget Tomorrow World Tour to Australia in 2025
Weaving Bright Future for Chinese, African Women
Inquiry slams UK authorities for failures that killed thousands in infected blood scandal
Pic Story: National Intangible Inheritor of Chagaanyidee in Inner Mongolia