When did golfer Tom Watson marry his current wife, Hilary Watson?
The Kids I know that general golf attention is directed elsewhere at the moment. And people are marveling over the fact that the Golf Gods didn’t cause the surface of the earth to split and swallow Turnberry whole when Tiger didn’t make the cut. But I’d like to bring your attention back to the future for a moment. The World Junior Golf Championships finished up yesterday in and around San Diego. Here is the web site. Go check out the scores. More importantly, scroll through the player lists and check out the names and countries. It truly is a World championship. Somewhere in all those names are the ones that will be on top of leaderboards around the world in the next 10 years or so. See if there’s a kid on those lists that lives somewhere near you. Go watch them in a junior tournament. Who knows. Someday that kid might be raising a trophy at the end of an Open and you can say ‘I saw them when they were 13. I knew they’d be a winner even back then’. This year it is being played at Turnb
In early September of 1999 Tom Watson married Hilary Watson, the former wife of Tour pro Denis Watson From Sept. 20, 1999 – Not only does Watson have a new tour and a new wife, but he is also beginning a new life. The Watsons live on a ranch 26 miles south of Kansas City and plan to spend the winter in Fort Lauderdale so Hilary can be near her three children, ages 8, 10 and 13, who attend school there. Tom’s daughter, Meg, is a sophomore at Duke. His son, Michael, is a high school junior in Kansas City. Watson intends to work on his game over the winter and enter about 20 Senior events next year, including most of the early ones in Florida, plus the Masters, the British Open, the Colonial and, if he gets exemptions, the U.S. Open and the PGA. “He still has that fire,” Hilary says. “He’s incredibly competitive. I can tell on the tennis court—I can beat him in tennis. I hate to admit it, but he beats me in pool.” Sources:
