Phil Mickelson hits a foul ball and calmly puts it back into play from a hospitality tent during Thursday’s second round of The Barclays.
Bubba Watson hits two people on one hole, blames course setup
Bubba Watson has another adventurous day on the golf course and a fan and a cameraman have the Pro V1x-shaped bruises to prove it.
Ross Kinnaird
Phil Mickelson on whether he’s hit one from the hospitality area before: "You hit it offline often enough, you’re going to see those spots."
— Jason Sobel (@JasonSobelGC) August 22, 2014 Bubba Watson, on the other hand, clocks a spectator and a cameraman and blames the course design when his errant shot ends up in front of a grandstand.
Can't make this stuff up. Complaining about the grandstands 30 yards over the green #PrayForTedScott pic.twitter.com/4sEcruCH5d
— No Laying Up (@NoLayingUp) August 22, 2014 “Wasn’t thought out very well, was it?” Watson complained as a PGA Tour official tried to help him determine where to take a drop in the rough behind the green on the 18th so that the bleachers did not interfere with his swing.
At the same time, Watson’s long-suffering caddie Ted Scott sought to keep the crowd from twitching and upsetting his fidgety boss.
Never mind that a fan’s less-than six-pack abs had already saved his ball from the tall stuff off the fairway, or that the rules guy was just trying to help. Bubba being Bubba, it was all, woe is me.
“I can’t help if that [the course] was designed this way,” Watson whined again to the official. “Basically it wasn’t thought out well.”
Um, maybe if Big Baby Bubba could keep the ball on the fairway and didn’t airmail the green he wouldn’t have to rely on the kindness of strangers to help him out of a jam of his own making.
For sure, Bubba’s act is wearing thin on the golfing populace, at least those who share their opinions on Twitter.
In the end, the course design, and the rules, worked in his favor as he got to take an extremely generous drop and went on to make a rather adventurous par.
About the spectator who bounced Bubba’s ball back onto the playing surface. Turns out he was from Ireland and told Golf Channel that Watson’s stinger didn’t hurt at all because it hit him in his “Irish beer belly [that] he’s been working on for a long time.”
Red x is where TrackMan tracked Bubba's ball into spectator's stomach. Assist back towards the fairway. #TechCenter pic.twitter.com/ebjJnkyXvp
— TrackMan Golf (@TrackManGolf) August 22, 2014 Oh yeah, in case you missed it, Watson stirred up a bit of a hornet’s nest earlier in the day when he laid up on a short par-4 instead of pulling on his big boy pants and going for it.
Watson, by the way, added a 1-under 70 to Thursday’s 68 and enters the weekend four shots back of 36-hole co-leaders Cameron Tringale and defending champion Adam Scott.
Just another ho-hum day in the charmed life of two-time Masters champion Bubba from Bagdad.
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