Bubba Watson was one of the favorites to win his third major championship this week at Whistling Straits. The course seemed to set up well for his game, he was in form and it was at this venue where he narrowly lost to Martin Kaymer in a playoff back in 2010.
Bubba Watson makes a mess at the start of his final PGA Championship round
Pray for Ted Scott.
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But after last week’s near-miss runner-up at Bridgestone, Bubba could get nothing going this week. He has not broken 70 on a course that’s yielding birdies and mid-60s rounds to all the world-class players in the field. So Bubba’s not fully invested in this final round, and it shows early. He opened with two straight bogeys, including one at a par-5, which Bubba typically carves up. Bubba has the distance and game to go out and post a course record or majors record round, but that was gone by second fairway.
Our friends at No Laying Up, the inventors of the #PrayForTedScott tag, were at the ready.
Bubba in trouble early has the #PrayForTedScott meter dancing already pic.twitter.com/FQngFfbVPz
— No Laying Up (@NoLayingUp) August 16, 2015 Unfortunately for Bubba, his every shot is being shown on the PGA.com marquee groups stream -- and most of his round is being shown on the early TNT broadcast. So if there is that “pray for Teddy” moment, it won’t happen in obscurity.
UPDATE: Shortly after this mess, Bubba got into it with a rules official debating fire ants, insects vs. animals, and burrowing vs. tunneling. And then he drove the green at a 355-yard par-4 and made the first eagle of the week there. The sequence was all vintage Bubba.
★★★
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