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Why we're watching over big Bubba

By Bill Fields
Golf World

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

"Hey, this is Bubba," said the deep, Dixie voice on the other end of the phone. A last name was not necessary. If 27-year-old PGA Tour rookie Bubba Watson isn't already in one-name land with Tiger, Phil and Annika after his head-turning fourth-place finish in the Sony Open at Hawaii two weeks ago, he is at the check-in counter. His given name is Gerry, the "G" hard, the way the limber left-hander wallops his drives. But he has been Bubba since Day One. "[Football player] Bubba Smith was doing ad ...

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