Bubba Has New Knickname; Still Can't Figure Out Links Short Game

Brian Keogh reports that Bubba has become known in Europe as "Blubba Watson" after his French Open complaining, and that Bubba denies snubbing a fellow player needing a ride. And you might want to note this if you were contemplating putting Bubba on your fantasy team this week.

As for his promise never to play in Europe again apart from the Open, he’s changed his tune and will earn a tasty appearance fee for teeing it up in the Nordea Masters in Sweden next week.

Watson missed the cut at Turnberry two years ago and at St Andrews last year and blames his lack of subtelty around the greens.

He said: “The short game part, it’s so different to what we are used to. We’re used to just flopping it on the green but here you don’t sixty it like we do. I haven’t got the the touch are the greens yet to perform here.

“I can see [the shot] but I just can’t do it yet. Hopefully this year or hopefully in the near future I will start playing some good golf around here. Maybe watching Graeme and these guys will help me, especiallly guys that have performed pretty well in the last couple of majors.”