Tom Watson, an eight-time major champion, says golf has no place in the Olympics.The veteran American golfer, who is in Sydney to play the Australian Open for the first time since he won that tournament in 1984, said he does not support golf’s return to the Olympics for 2016.
I still think the Olympics is athletics, not golf, to be honest,” Watson said. “I don’t want to throw cold water on this, but I don’t think golf should be part of the Olympics. “Golf was played at the Paris Olympics in 1900 and the St. Louis Olympics in 1904.
Regarding the future ban on body-anchored putters, Watson said that this way of playing the putter “is not a golf stroke, but I have mixed emotions, because my son Michael could not putt from a meter with a conventional putter, and with a belly putter he can putt anything.
“He’s probably talking like a dinosaur,” the great American goflist said.
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