How many years was Tom Watson married to his highschool sweetheart Linda before they got a divorce?
His private life is another matter. Last November he quit drinking. In December, Linda Watson, Tom’s wife of 25 years, filed for divorce. Later that month his 22-year relationship with Ram took a turn when his contract with the club manufacturer expired. Watson is shopping for a new deal, with Ram among his suitors. Over the past several years, he has reconciled with his father, mending a relationship whose strains date back to 1990. Now he is starting to think about the next phase of his life, about what to do after he turns 50, which happens in 15 months. Watson has always lived in fishbowls, the PGA Tour, upper-crust Kansas City, Mo., and the fishbowl population loves to talk. Meg, the Watsons’ 18-year-old daughter, will attend Duke in the fall, and not Stanford, her father’s alma mater. In the bowls this decision is being interpreted—wrongly, absurdly—as an act of rebellion on Meg’s part. (After all, she’s not going to her mother’s alma mater, Mills College, either.) People talk. W
Watson reckons those ‘yips’ cost him half a dozen titles but they were not his biggest challenge. His marriage of 25 years to school sweetheart Linda ended in bitter divorce. Soon after he stopped drinking. Just went cold turkey, admitting: “I stopped drinking because while drinking I did some things that I didn’t like.” And that is part of the reason why Watson, with warts bared and wounds healed, has proved such a human figure on Turnberry’s testing links. Sources: http://www.sportinglife.com/golf/theopen2009/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=golf/09/07/18/GOLF_Open_Watson.
