Bubba Watson can’t help herself when in a range of direction. In mid -January, we had a tracker located in the Dutch pipe in Southern Florida, and he was giving me tips on how to work the ball left and right. But not just work the ball, VW the ball. Send and bend it as much as possible. No one really does it like him, and he is not to humble himself to accept it.
Long ago, seeing me hit the balls eat in it enough to catch a club and get some shakes, too. The first is a rope hook, much like it shot from Pinestraw to Augusta National, where in 2012 he triumphed in a play off over Louis Oosthuizen and Bubba golf became iconic. In the range with me, he moves his ball with an absurd curve 129 meters left to the right, aided by a strong wind. It is the perfect segment to finally ask him about that funny blow to Augusta, who simply proves to be one to talk about all the crazy shootings he has played in Masters over the years.
For the next 10 minutes, Bubba listed his Mount Mount Mountain of the Masters Masters, which we compiled in an exclusive video of Member Insidegolf below.
The first was that winning moment in 2012, hook at 10 in Play off. But else was one 2022 Access to the 18th that no one remembers. Out of the trees that divide 18 and 10, he launched a ball under a leaf up in the sky. He was never able to look at the earth, given all the trees in his way, but he told me he was one of the best shots of his life.
Next came his old caddy Ted Scott’s favorite, another rope kick from Pinestraw, this time the 11th. Only this blow had real problems for him, as he would have to play it over the basin, straining it again in green. Scott tried to speak Watson outside him, but this is not the Golf Bubba way. He drew it, and described it in a bad way as I had to ask: Are these shots 1-in-10 or 1-in-1,000?
“Nah, they are 1-in-10, maybe?” He said. “Because I’ve done these before when I’m home. Now you have to do them in masters.”
Uh, yah!
Watch the video below – exclusive to INSIDEGOLF members – for Watson’s breaking for those three shots and also a recent muddy wedge he played during his march to win in 2012.
