LIVING LEGEND
Golfer Tom Watson Defies Age
Written by Sondra Barr, The Media Barr, Inc.
It takes a rare sort of athlete to transcend a sport and become more than a mere footnoot or trivia question along the lines of: “What golfer was dubbed Huckleberry Dillinger early in his career?”
Tom Watson, the answer to the aforementioned query, is one such athlete. He’s amassed 39 PGA Tour wins (including two Masters, a U.S. Open, and a remarkable five British Opens), been a PGA Player of the Year six times, won five Champions Tour Major Championships, been a five-time leading money winner, and is only the second player in history, after Sam Snead, to post a top 20 finish in five different decades.
He’s a golfing legend, no doubt. And, at 61 years of age, you better believe he well deserves the honor. But legendary status typically references a “past” greatness. Guess what? Whatson is still around. And, while Watson may have outgrown his early-career moniker, he continues to demonstrate the staying power of the literary Huckleberry and the gumption of a Dillinger – along with the fierce determination and and competitive fire rarely exhibited by folks his age, or any age, for that matter.
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