2013 Travelers Championship: What’s Bubba Watson Missing Since 2012 Masters Win?

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Published: June 24, 2013

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There is nothing about Bubba Watson that makes you think “great champion.”

He is a champion, no doubt, and he has the green jacket in his closet at home to prove it.

But nothing he has done since that magic week in April of 2012 could be used as evidence that he’s a great champion.

He is, however, flighty, whiny and fidgety, and he carries a considerable attitude under that floppy mop of hair.

The first three adjectives are pretty much part and parcel of the Bagdad, Florida native’s makeup and probably can’t be changed. That attitude, however, is perhaps the biggest thing keeping him from playing like he did in the 2012 Masters.

In 2010, Watson was a very unhappy man in addition to those other adjectives.

He was wound up tighter than a drum, and every shot, good or bad, was life or death. His caddie, Ted Scott, and trainer, Andrew Fischer, let him have it over dinner one night.



They brought to his attention what he had become, and he began the process of rehabilitation. And that talk took place over a year before he won the Masters.

That talk, plus the adoption of a child, seemed to right Watson’s listing ship, at least in terms of how he comported himself.

Other than his winning week at the Masters, however, the “talked-to” Watson hasn’t become much more of a golfer than he was before.

Since tying for second in the Travelers Championship last year, he hadn’t been in really serious contention for another title until this week at the Travelers.

While he was in a dogfight at the top of the leaderboard, he was clearly the most talented player in a group that included Chris Stroud, Ken Duke and others.

But you could see those Bubba-isms starting to creep to the forefront as he made his way to the back nine Sunday.

Backing off shots, changing his pre-s...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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