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Bubba goes long – and wide – in Long Drive competition

It found a bunker, and only drives in the fairway count.

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“Looking back, I’d pull the same club again”, Watson said.

“I forgot about it up until yesterday after I had already done nine holes”, Oosthuizen said.

“I don’t look at Golf Channel or read any articles about me for the last year and a half”. I had one bogey and was jovial to have attained that meager goal. Imagine what it would have done for his psyche if he had two majors before Tiger Woods turned pro.

“They’re definitely into it. This is a pretty sports-mad state”, Woods said.

“I recognize there’s only been a couple times that people have won three majors in a year, and that would be just such special company”, Spieth said while preparing for the opening round at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin. I’ve never been to the course. The galleries are kicking up the long stuff where all the mosquitoes are.

According to the latest oddsmakers, McIlroy is now listed with 9/1 odds to win the PGA Championship. The hard part might have been when it was over. “I think the replica we had was maybe 90 percent and it’s still really heavy”. But one very prominent champion was missing from the photo. The latter, he has remedied by buying Tiger Woods’ old house in Isleworth, Fla., and the Dukes of Hazzard auto, General Lee, the roof of which was adorned with the Confederate flag until he had it painted it over after the Charleston, S.C., church shootings in June.

“It’s pretty heavy, especially when you’re exhausted”, Woods said.

“I’ll be honest, I haven’t played 18 since that day”, he said Tuesday. “Obviously, that helps”.

And he just might win the PGA Championship this week at Whistling Straits, where he was, arguably, one mis-clubbed approach shot on the third playoff hole from winning it outright in 2010.

It also holds a bad memory for Bubba Watson.

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It’s been five years since Bubba Watson lost the 2010 PGA Championship in a three-hole playoff to Martin Kaymer. John Mahaffey shot 66 to make up a seven-shot deficit, and he beat Watson and Jerry Pate on the second playoff hole. “I didn’t know it was in the water. There’s no way. And I heard the moans and I was like, ‘How can it be in the water?’ I thought I hit a decent shot”.

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