Bubba Watson can now start his five-month vacation.
He needs it.
Desperately.
Bubba Watson, the PGA Tour’s resident grouch, didn’t make it into the top 70 after the Dell, didn’t come close.
Let’s take a quick review of Watson’s performance this season.
First, no wins.
Second, and here’s the eye-rubber — only four, yes FOUR top 10s. Mind-boggling stat.
He had six missed cuts and a WD.
Here’s where it gets worse. In the four majors, he missed the cut in three of them, including The Masters, where he has won twice. The only major he made the weekend was the Open Championship, an amazing feat considering how much Bubba dislikes playing outside the U.S.
Still, Bubba managed to win $1.22 million this year, just shows the kind of money that’s available out there, even for the under-achievers.
So what changed for Bubba? Aside from his attitude, there was one major change — his golf ball.
Watson switched to those ridiculous, eye-hurting neon balls made by a certain South Korean company. Watson is the only guy on the PGA Tour who uses ’em, there are a few South Korean women’s players who use those pellets.
We’re not here to badmouth any brands but check around your clubs, see if you can find any low-handicap players using Bubba’s brand of golf ball.
The one place you will find them is at the National Long Drive championship but those muscle-bound lashers don’t have to chip and putt for a living.
It’s up to Bubba to ask himself if that switch affected his performance. Did he do it for a money grab?
Whatever happened to Bubba Watson, he’ll now have plenty of time to vanish, adjust his attitude and wonder what went so very wrong this year.
