"Bubba In Paris" Reviews Are In!
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I thought the media reaction was a mountain out of a mole hill until I heard about the courtesy car.
"I'm not sharing with another player, ah want ma own car." Pathetic.
The player he was to share the 15-minute journey from the luxury hotel to the golf course is a two-time winner on the European Tour, his name is S.S.P.Chowrasia from India.
Like his fellow countrymen, Jeev Milkha Singh, Shiv Kapur and Joyti Randhawa, SSP is a gentleman of impeccable manners and a credit to his country and the sport.
Bubba, or should I say by this time, Blubba, broke all of the codes and ethics among professional golfers. No one is more important than anyone else. His behaviour wasn't just naughty, it was embarrassing.
After all, we've had Tiger spitting on the greens in Dubai, Steve Stricker notable only for being anonymous in Qatar and then there was Bubba Watson making an idiot of himself last week with some cultural references in Paris that would have been embarrassing coming from a child of primary-school age. Are you smarter than a 10-year-old? Not Bubba, apparently.
A good chance to raise the bar therefore, gentlemen. After all, it could hardly have been set any lower.
Still, while it is easy to make fun of Watson's National Lampoon-like view of the world there is a serious and more important, albeit hardly original, point to be made about his performance at a European Tour event where he was the only member of the world's top 20 in attendance. On the course that will host the 2018 Ryder Cup, Watson finished T-102 in a no-better-than-average field of 156. Thus, the growing notion that even leading Americans are adept at only a very narrow form of PGA Tour-style golf is further strengthened. Certainly, Jack Nicklaus is one who believes more of them need to break out their passports a bit more often.
