"Is this a Pete Dye course?"
/Bob Harig on Bubba Watson's post-68 press conference:
Watson, a self-taught player from the panhandle of Florida, managed to tie for the clubhouse lead during the first round of the fog-delayed PGA Championship at Whistling Straits on Thursday, shooting a 4-under-par 68 on the Pete Dye layout.
"Is this a Pete Dye course?" Watson wondered aloud when the subject came up after the round.
This is a week after he told a television interviewer at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational that his main goal was to make the cut. The World Golf Championship event didn't have a 36-hole cut.
"Well, I guess I made it then," Watson said.
Steve Elling on the emotional moments:
Similar to when he won the Travelers to claim his first PGA Tour victory, Watson started sobbing during an emotional discussion about his father, Gerry, who is battling cancer. This time, Watson also divulged that his wife, Angie, had a cancer scare of her own last winter that turned out to be a false alarm.
Watson broke down sobbing three different times trying to relate the story of his father and wife.
"Man, I don't like you guys anymore," he said, generating laughs in the media center. "Before I had fun, but now I'm not."