'Small-town guy named Bubba' once again rules the Masters


  • Golf
  • Monday, 14 Apr 2014

Masters winner Bubba Watson stands in his green jacket after winning the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia April 13, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Blake

AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Bubba Watson had just won his second Masters in three years, by the comfortable margin of three strokes, and the long-hitting lefty sounded like he needed to pinch himself to believe it.

"A guy named Bubba from a small town, born in Pensacola, Florida, raised in Bagdad (Florida), it's crazy to think that you've won," Watson said at the champion's news conference on Sunday.

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