Winner: Bubba Watson
Around the wider world of golf: Jeff Maggert got ticked off by my post last Wednesday so he went and won the US Senior Men's Open on the Champions Tour; Na Yeon Choi dropped an eagle-birdie-par finish on the field to take the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship on the LPGA; Dani Holmqvist won the Island Resort Championship on the Symetra Tour; Pablo Larrazábal won the BMW International Open on the ET; Jeong Hwa Lee won the Hong Kong Ladies Open on the LAGT; Rob Oppenheim won the Air Capital Classic on the Web.com Tour; Kevin Spooner won the Syncrude Boreal Open on the Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada; and Bo-Mee Lee won the Earth Mondamin Cup on the JLPGA (bangkokbobby has details).
It just appears bizarre to me. You take a man like Bubba Watson, a man who likes to put huge bends and curves on a golfing ball, and the simplest locations he appears to play nicely -- aside from Augusta National, that is -- are pretty claustrophobic guides with lots of trees and tight fairways. Put him on a wide open hyperlinks-fashion route and he seems to be absolutely misplaced.
I simply don't get it... But alas for the rest of the sphere, they have come to be all too acquainted with this weird quirk of being Bubba. And this is doubly authentic after they play at TPC River Highlands, the home of the Travelers Championship.
I admit that I become pulling for Paul Casey -- now not because I did not need Bubba to win, however just due to the fact Paul has had one of these long journey back from all the injuries and such that nearly derailed his profession. He's been so close this 12 months and as soon as he made the playoff I concept perhaps this is probably the week.
But it wasn't. Instead, Bubba did his usual magic hints with the ball and made us all surprise why the hell he can not play a US Open or an Open Championship well worth a rattling. Perhaps he simply needs some glasses that restrict his discipline of imaginative and prescient so he will THINK the ones majors don't have any room to land a golfing ball. I apprehend maximum of the opposite gamers inside the discipline have already got some of those and could likely lend them to him if he just requested...
In the meantime, Bubba receives yet another Limerick Summary to post on his wall... and a plea for him to find some way to play the Open Championship the way we know he can. Bubba, St. Andrews is a PERFECT place for you to win an Open!
Bubba traveled from West Coast to East,
Winning right here wherein he?S continually a beast.
Ain?T it strange Bubba thinks
He must battle on hyperlinks
While at Travelers he plays the artiste? The photo came from the tournament upshot page at PGATOUR.com.
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