These Kids Today Files: Tom Watson At The Champions Dinner

The Tom-Watson and Phil Mickelson exchange at the Champion's Dinner was as awkward as hoped, reports John Strege after Watson's appearance on Golf Channel's Live From.

But more fun than that was Watson's little rant on the kids today!

“The conversations have been pretty stilted the past several years. Nobody really was willing to kind of speak up… [In the past] there was a tradition of conversation, and that tradition was kind of lost until last night, when people got up and spoke, and it was a special night. I think it was wonderful for the younger players to see that and to hear the stories from the older players. That's the way you pass down history and lore, by word of mouth. That's the old‑fashioned way, not by your cell phone and doing a Google. But to hear the stories direct from the horses' mouths is something very special, and that's what happened last night.”

Maybe the young ones--Scott, Bubba, Immelman, Schwartzel, etc.. are afraid to talk because there's a grumpy geezer in the room? Something tells me it's not because they are looking at their phone during the Champions Dinner. Just a hunch!