Bubba Watson just won the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play Championship at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. In an eighteen-hole finals match, he soundly defeated Kevin Kisner 7 and 6, meaning seven down with six holes to play. Bubba had gotten off to a blazing start, winning six of the first seven holes. With Kisner struggling with his game and luck, the outcome soon became a foregone conclusion. It was Bubba’s eleventh win on the PGA Tour. And this is the only match play event on Tour.
And to think that Bubba Watson–two-time Masters champion–was seriously thinking last year of forever quitting pro golf. But he had been plagued with injuries. Then Bubba revived his winless career the past two years by emerging victoriously a month ago, and this for the third time, in the Genesis Open at famed Riviera Country Club in Palisades, California, near Los Angeles. Bubba Watson is back, with two wins already this year on the PGA Tour.
Bubba Watson is a great golfer like no other. He plays left-handed. He arguably hits the ball farther than anyone on the Tour. He has a golf swing that no golf swing instructor would try to teach. He is strictly a feel player. His swing is very wristy. He looks like a ballerina on his toes at impact. He knows not of a straight shot–purposely curving his ball, sometimes prodigiously. Could Bubba Watson have been a Major League Baseball pitcher?
Good Ole’ Boy Bubba Watson is an interesting guy. He says he’s “a 39-year old kid” from Bagdad, Florida, living his dreams on the PGA Tour. He’s really like a kid in a candy store; he actually owns one.
In Bubba’s acceptance speech just now, he said he “never had a golf lesson.” He said his game depends a lot on creativity. Indeed it does. Just recall that shot he hit from the trees on the difficult 10th hole at the Masters which he won. He curved an iron shot–and the ball nestled up close to the hole–that I bet nobody in his right mind would have thought of trying except The Bubba.
Bubba Watson is a member of the PGA Tour Bible Study. He speaks publicly about how he became a committed Christian as a pro golfer.
Every time emotional Bubba Watson wins a PGA Tour tournament, he can’t hardly hold back the tears in his acceptance speech. He constantly credits his mother and his wife Angie, who has been a professional athlete herself. She talks Bubba into not quitting.
Pro golf needs Bubba Watson. He’s a heart-warming guy. Stick around Bubba! The Master is right around the corner. You’re career is blossoming again. It’s matching that bright pink driver and glove you sported today.
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