Davis Love III remembers coming to the Masters as a youngster with his father to ``watch swings.''

Love, a 10-time winner in the PGA Tour and a runner-up in the 1995 Masters and 1996 U.S. Open, is still watching swings at age 32. So are most of his contemporaries on the PGA Tour.

Tom Watson says he likes to watch ``everybody'' swing.

``In a sense, over a period of years, you see them swing poorly and swing well,'' Watson said. ``You can tell the difference. It keeps my mind sharp about the flow of the golf swing.''

Watson believes Nick Price has one of the most fundamentally sound golf swings in the game today.

``He has a great path with his golf swing,'' Watson said.

As for Price, he loved to watch Lee Trevino when the ``Merry Mex'' was on the PGA Tour.

``If we were both on the range, I'd throw my club down and go and watch him for awhile,'' Price said. ``I've always loved to watch him, though he's got an unconventional swing. I've always enjoyed watching him maneuver the ball.''

``Every once in awhile,'' Love says, ``I'll sneak down and watch Billy Ray Brown hit a couple of shots to get some rhythm. I'm not trying to copy him. I just want to get that rhythm.''

When other touring pros are asked whose swings they admire the most, the names of Steve Elkington, Larry Mize and Nick Faldo are the popular choices.

``I like Elkington's rhythm and footwork,'' Love said. ``I like Faldo's control of the club face and control of his position.''

``Steve Elkington's movements are proper and fundamentally sound,'' Ben Crenshaw said.

``On the other hand,'' Crenshaw said, ``I'm just as interested and happy to know that Jim Furyk can play the heck out of this game. As much as people say his backswing is not sound, believe me, when he starts back down through the hitting area, he is as sound as anybody. I think it is the little personal quirks of the swing that make it so interesting. I watched Miller Barber forever. I grew up playing on the tour with him and Don January.''

Current British Open champion Tom Lehman said, ``I like watching Larry Mize swing. My swing is almost entirely dictated by ball position and tempo. If I've got the right ball position and tempo, I'm going to play well. When you watch someone like Larry swing, whose tempo I think is perfect, it helps me.''

Likewise, two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer says he has a ``little different'' swing than most of the pros, ``but it still helps to watch the rhythm the others are swinging at. I like to watch Faldo, David Frost and Mark O'Meara.''

As for Mize, he admires the swings of Fred Couples and Gil Morgan, a rookie on the Senior PGA Tour.

``It's fun to watch the power and the fluidness in Fred's swing,'' Mize said. ``Although Gil Morgan's not out here anymore, I've always liked his swing. I've stopped on the range just to watch him. Gil has a great golf swing.''

Though he played in his last Masters in 1983, three-time Masters champion Sam Snead made quite an impression on the golfers who followed him on the PGA Tour.

``When I first went to Augusta, Snead was getting up there a little bit in years, but he still looked really good on the practice tee hitting balls,'' Price said.

``Always at Augusta, I wanted to watch Sam Snead swing,'' Watson said.