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...HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- Joe Durant remembers well the day he helped launch Bubba Watson's professional golf career. Durant did it by making sure he stayed out of his way. It was 2003, and Durant, already a three-time winner on the PGA Tour, received a phone call...
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Golf Digest
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...golfer in his early 20s with a subtle Southern accent who went by the decidedly unsubtle name of "Bubba." Indeed, it was Bubba Watson playing the course that day. He was in the area visiting with his girlfriend, Angie Ball, and her parents, Loretta and Wayne,...
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CBC News
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...only thing close to a formal golf lesson that new Masters champion Bubba Watson has ever had came from his late father Gerry Watson and all that consisted of was showing Bubba how to grip the club and the basic swing. From there, it's been all Bubba. Relying...
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Ventura County Star
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...his 9 1/2-pound size and said to his mom, Molly, "We got a Bubba instead of a baby." Since then, everything seems large about Bubba Watson, including the way he won the 76th Masters. Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa executed the rarest shot of all at the Augusta...
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The Morning Call
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...and certainly didn’t grow up with the prototypical pushy parent. No, Bubba Watson is not your average Masters champion. Bubba Watson is a swashbuckling, carefree, deeply religious and immensely talented guy from Bagdad, Fla. who just happened to have found...
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Madison.com
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...play on the PGA Tour? How many have? Only one I could find is Bubba Dickerson, who is now on the Nationwide Tour, which is Bubba Watson’s old turf. Dickerson is from Florida, which is Watson’s other old (and often current) turf. Bubba Watson is from Bagdad,...
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...is from Florida, which is Watson’s other old (and often current) turf. Bubba Watson is from Bagdad, in the Panhandle. Bubba Watson lives in many places, and one of them is High Rock Lake near Lexington, our Lexington, the barbeque capital of North Carolina....
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Charlotte Observer
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“Bubba Golf” seems destined to become part of the game’s lexicon now.
Bubba Watson officially dropped the term on the golf world Wednesday at the Wells Fargo Championship.
“I’m still a kid,” Watson, 32, said at Quail Hollow Club. “I’m hitting shots that
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Golf Channel
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The Sixth Sense: Bubba Watson is golf's ultimate feel player bit.ly
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...to Bubba Watson for his great win at the 2011 Farmers Insurance Open. But, sorry Bubba, this ain't Golf Dudes. It's Golf Babes. So we celebrate by featuring Angie Watson, Bubba's lovely wife. Angie - maiden name Angie Ball - is originally from Canada, and...
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Golf Babes
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...are the Top 10 in the world putt pretty good, so that's what you need to do. Q. What do you work on, alignment, stroke? BUBBA WATSON: Just getting the feels of the greens and more putts. I'm not technical, so I don't think of any of that stuff. I just stroke...
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PGATour.com
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January 5th, 2011 - Part 4/4 - Long Drive Contest at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions between 2-time RE/MAX World Long Drive Champion Jamie Sadlowski and 3 of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour - Bubba Watson, Dustin Johnson, and Robert Garrigus.
Fun-loving Bubba Watson made his mark in 2010 both on and off the course, claiming his first PGA TOUR title at the and sharing his life off the course through the camera lens.
Bubba Watson (team member for Travis Mathew apparel) gives us a behind the scenes look at the PGA playoffs 2010, from the Golf Channel
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...Wis. You'd never know Bubba Watson had just lost the PGA Championship. Watson insisted he was more thrilled to earn a spot on his first Ryder Cup team than disappointed at coming up short against Martin Kaymer in a three-hole playoff at Whistling Straits on...
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Pensacola News Journal | PNJ.com
http://www.pnj.com/article/20100816/SPORTS/8160320/1002/RSS02
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...the lovely, beautiful and tall Angie Watson, she is PGA golfer’s Gerry Bubba Watson’s wife. With lives so different and living in totally different environments it was unlikely these two would meet some day, but it is that unlikeness that brought them together....
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Right Fielders
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...Wis. While other players waited out the fog delay on the driving range or putting green, Bubba Watson played games on his phone and threw things at Rickie Fowler while his good friend was trying to sleep. There are, Watson knows all too well, more important...
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Pensacola News Journal | PNJ.com
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...copies to aspiring golfers. That is, of course, if he could remember what to include in his manuscript. AP Photo/Eric GayBubba Watson shot 68 on Thursday in the first round of the PGA Championship. It's the first time he's broken par in four starts in the...
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ESPN
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...Wis. (AP) — While other players waited out the fog delay on the driving range or putting green, Bubba Watson played games on his phone and threw things at Rickie Fowler while his good friend was trying to sleep. There are, Watson knows all too well, more important...
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Mount Clemens Macomb Daily
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They don't hug in his family, so Gerry "Bubba" Watson's outstretched arms only gathered in startled cheers on the 18th green at Firestone South, as he became the real-life star of "The Bubba Show."
Still, Bubba Watson is a guy the world should be
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2010/08/bubba_watson_easy_to_embrace_b.html
Watch Bubba Watson Wins the Travelers Championship video at our link hotnewss.com for free Bubba Watson recorded his first US PGA Tour win at the Travelers Championship by beating Scott Verplank with a par on the second hole of a playoff. Watson, 31, rolled in a four-foot putt on the par-3 16th hole at the TPC River Highlands golf course in Cromwell, Connecticut, after Verplank missed his par attempt. Watson receives $1.08 million for the victory.
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...until now Bubba Watson had to be one the biggest surprises in not having won a PGA Tour event. One of the longer hitters the game has ever seen and possessing a deft touch around and on the greens, Watson had been pegged as an up and comer since day one. Today...
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Average Golfer
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...just made a good stroke. Q. That was a good putt to finish it off and try to give you some momentum heading into Friday. BUBBA WATSON: Yeah, definitely. You know, I wanted to make that one just to make dinner taste well. Q. You've had a couple top 10s here....
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PGATour.com
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Last week, Bubba Watson was looking for a partner for a pro-am scramble after his partner bailed. Dogs That Chase Cars' Shane Bacon was in Arizona to do the honors and reports on the experience.
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Milton High graduates Heath Slocum and Bubba Watson are within five shots of the lead after two rounds of the BMW Championship.
Watson is in seventh place at 7-under after firing a 3-under 68 on Friday. Slocum shot a 69 on Friday and is 3-under for the
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Pensacola News Journal | PNJ.com
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JERSEY CITY – On The Barclays scorecard it looks like a golden opportunity. From the tee it looks as if disaster could be lurking anywhere.
The 16th hole at Liberty National Golf Club – a 324-yard, drivable par-4 – has a little of everything: risk,
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The thoroughbreds of professional golf are preparing to round the last turn and head down the home stretch. It is hard to believe the regular season will be over in only eight weeks when the final putt drops at the THE TOUR Championship presented by
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PGATour.com
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However, Furyk does not have a victory in more than two years as he tees it up this week in the Buick Open at Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club in Grand Blanc, Mich.
Jamie Lovemark, once the No. 1-ranked amateur in the world
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Dozens of area kids circled around PGA Tour golfer Bubba Watson during his Monday golf clinic at Stonebrook Golf Club, held in conjunction with the 52nd annual Divot Derby.
And the kids all had questions.
"What's the farthest you have ever hit a driver?
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Bubba Watson started his golf career by playing in the Divot Derby.
Now, the Milton High graduate, is sponsoring and helping to enhance the annual junior golf tournament. Watson, the longest hitter on the PGA Tour, will be doing a free clinic, open to
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At least this Sunday evening will not be as anticlimactic for Tom Watson as
the last Sunday evening.
The youngest 59-year-old in the world fell six shots behind some 54-year-old
whippersnapper called Greg Norman in the Senior British Open at
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The Independent
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As world No.1 Tiger Woods was missing a cut for only the second time in a Major, Watson continued to thrill the crowds at Turnberry, sinking two huge putts in the last three holes of his second-round 70 to earn a share of the halfway lead with Steve
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Edinburgh Daily News
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But the Edinburgh-based player admitted it hadn't been a bad second best after watching from close quarters as Tom Watson rolled back the years to thrill the crowds with his opening 65 over the Ailsa Course.
Coltart is working as an on-course ana
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Edinburgh Daily News
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Major championship golf winds approach once again. Golf writer Greg Kinzer separates the wheat from the chaff below.
It is time once again for the chosen few to descend upon jolly ol’ England for the third major championship of the year, the 2009
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RotoExperts
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Clearly, its spot on the calendar right behind the British Open is still an obstacle in luring top-10 players, but the RBC Canadian Open has done an enviable job with the field, with more names yet to be announced.
Sean O'Hair, Retief Goosen, Bubba
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Canoe
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PGA Tour star Bubba Watson will again sponsor the Divot Derby, the junior golf tournament he often won, on July 27-29 at various courses in the Pensacola area.
Watson will host a free clinic at 5:30 p.m. July 27 at Stonebrook Golf Club in Pace. A
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Pensacola News Journal | PNJ.com
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CURRENT STANDINGS
Name
Last week $
Overall $
Field based on Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index:
1. Jim Furyk
6. Paul Casey
8. Hunter Mahan
9. Robert Allenby
17. Mike Weir
18.
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Golf Week
http://www.golfweek.com/story/fantasy-aces-congressional-063009
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CROMWELL — The TPC River Highlands course yielded low numbers all day Sunday in the final round of the Travelers Championship, and Scott Verplank and Bubba Watson took advantage by challenging the course record of 9-under-par 61.
Verplank entered the 18
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New Haven Register
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/06/29/sports/29_travelers_notebook.txt
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Paul Goydos has the 54-lead lead for the second time in his long career on the PGA TOUR.
PGATOUR.COM's The Live Report has all the news and notes from the Travelers Championship, and we'll be providing updates from TPC River Highlands all day long for
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PGATour.com
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CURRENT STANDINGS
Name
Last week $
Overall $
Field based on Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index:
3. Sergio Garcia
5. Ben Curtis
7. Kenny Perry
12. Hunter Mahan
17. David Toms
20.
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Golf Week
http://www.golfweek.com/story/fantasy-aces-travelers-062309
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Though he was rarely shown Sunday on the national telecast, Bubba Watson quietly put himself in contention at the U.S. Open with the best round of the day.
Watson, a Milton High graduate who now lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., produced a 3-under 67 during
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Pensacola News Journal | PNJ.com
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. The third round of a major championship has traditionally been known as "Moving Day."
The third round of this year's U.S. Open didn't earn that title for a couple of reasons: It took two days to complete, and nobody did much
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Rutherford Daily News Journal
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) The third round of a major championship has traditionally been known as "Moving Day."
The third round of this year's U.S. Open didn't earn that title for a couple of reasons: It took two days to complete, and nobody did much
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Sports Illustrated
http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1906092,00.html?eref=si_latest
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Ran into a legend in the hotel foyer late Saturday night. It was timely, to say the least.
Earlier this week, Golf Digest held a soiree for the most famous golf scribe of his era, the inimitable Dan Jenkins, who this
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CBS Sports
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Bubba Watson, left, waits to tee off on the 10th hole with his caddie Ted Scott during the third round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., Saturday, June 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
(Mike
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