The PGA Championship: Day 1
August 11 2011
3:20 pm Watson will learn from 74
By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Bubba Watson didn’t mince words when asked what he would post on his Twitter account Thursday afternoon.
"I suck at golf," Watson said after shooting a 74 in the first round of the PGA Championship. Watson’s frustration was heightened considering he had played his first six holes in 4 under and was tied for the lead at the time.
Watson had started on the back side, and he made the turn in 32 after bogeying the 18th hole. He continued the slide with bogeys on his first four holes on the front, made another at No. 5 and a double bogey at the eighth for a 42.
"It was very tough," Watson said. "The golf course is a very difficult golf course. The fairways are hard to hit with all the bunkers and the water. It’s a tough golf course."
Watson, who finished second at last year’s PGA Championship, losing in a playoff, said he plans to concentrate on the first six holes rather than the last 12 as he looks back on the first round.
"I was 3 under, 4 under at one time, so I know I can do it," McIlroy said. "But you know, it’s a learning process. Pretty much your whole life is learning.
"I’m going to take a lot from today. … It might not work tomorrow, it might not work this week, it might not work the rest of this year, but next year hopefully it’ll work."
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This needs edited, you are using Bubba’s quotes as if McIlroy said them. How does that happen?
just as your post dude …. “this needs edited” ? little mistakes man. who cares …
right now mcelroy is shooting 1 under with an injured wrist whilst bubba and tiger may not make the cut. its nice to see someone ‘ gutting’ it out.
article is butchered for being so short:
“He continued the slide with bogeys on his first four holes on the front, made another at No. 5″
Wouldn’t that be bogeys his first FIVE holes on the front? well, no, because he didn’t bogey 5, he bogeyed 6
The the quote attributed to McElroy instead of Watson.
“Mcilroy speaks as if he is Bubba Watson now, really they are one in the same,” McIlroy said.
1. Watson bogeyed hole 6, not 5, and
2. Watson said that, not McIlroy
Helen, proofread. Please.
he is considered the epimtoe of the modern day one planer, his shaft slant at the top and in the downswing as the arms drop pretty much mirror the shaft slant at address you really need to study up on the modern day one plane swing my friend. if this is not what he is, why is he being referred to as such by people such as butch harmon, david leadbetter, jeff ritter, steve bann, jim hardy, peter jacobsen? who are some of the most knowledgeable people to ever study the golf swing?