Nicholas Alan Watney (born April 25, 1981) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.

In July 2011, Watney won the AT&T National and broke into the top ten of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time.

He played collegiate golf under his uncle Mike Watney at Fresno State University, where he was a three-time All-America golfer.

Watney shot a 27 on the back nine, which tied the second lowest nine-hole score ever recorded on the PGA Tour.

During the final round Watney did not record a single bogey, making a number of crucial par saving putts to hold off the challenge of Choi and capture his fourth PGA Tour title.

During the first round of the 2012 U.S. Open at the Olympic Club, Watney made a double eagle on the par-five 17th hole to become only the third man to record a double eagle in U.S. Open history, the others being Chen Tze-chung in 1985 at Oakland Hills and Shaun Micheel in 2010 at Pebble Beach.

[10] In August 2012, Watney won the first of the four FedEx Cup playoff events, The Barclays, at Bethpage Black in New York.

He came from two behind in the final round to win by three strokes over Brandt Snedeker to take the outright lead in the FedEx Cup standings.

In 2015, Watney finished second at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, seventh at the Farmers Insurance Open and tenth at the AT&T Byron Nelson.

On June 19, 2020, while playing in the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head, Watney became the first PGA Tour player to test positive for COVID-19.