June 23-26 Travelers Championship
THE YEAR AHEAD 2011
Ottawa 87 81 Lake Ontario 90 88
Vermont 89 91
Albany Boston Concord
91 90 Hartford Pennsylvania Harrisburg 76 68 Baltimore 81 95
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85 95 35˚ Charlotte 95 Columbia Raleigh 40 TPC River Highlands North Carolina
(Par 70/6,820 yards) Cromwell, Connecticut
South Carolina
Golf Channel/CBS Tournament Record: 258, Kenny Perry, 2009
A t l a n t i c O c e a n
Current Course Record: 61, Kirk Triplett, 2000; Phil Mickelson, Scott Verplank, 2001; Brad Faxon, 2005; Kenny Perry, 2009
acksonville da 95 Grand Bahama
How did Watson do it?
Abaco Eleuthera 80˚
Bubba Watson claimed his first career PGA TOUR title at the Travelers Championship. He was long off the tee as usual, but his putting was good as well:
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• Watson led the field in Driving Distance at 321.3 yards.
• He still hit 66.7% of the fairways.
• He was second in the field in Putting at 1.627.
• Watson converted a tournament best 43.1% of his birdie chances.
Bahama Islands
Cat Island San Salvador 75˚
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t’s not like anyone whose first name is “Bubba” really needs a nickname, but in Bubba Watson’s case, you could try the “Comeback Kid.” Watson, the pride of Bagdad, FL, stormed in from
six strokes back in the final round of the Travelers Championship to force a playoff with Scott Verplank and Corey Pavin and went on to win for his first PGA TOUR victory. It was largest comeback on TOUR since Ireland’s Padraig Harrington also rallied from six back to win the 2007 British Open. The playoff began on the challenging, par-4 18th and
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Pavin, 50, put himself in a jam with his tee shot. Never a long player anyway, Pavin hit his 3-wood tee shot just 219 yards (101 yards behind Watson’s drive) and then knocked his approach into a greenside bunker. He hit
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Bubba Watson came from six strokes back to capture his first PGA TOUR victory.
Other Course Record: 61, Dana Quigley, 1982 (Wethersfield C.C)
70˚ 80 81 78 76 95
Providence Rhode Island
95 Connecticut Dover
Virginia Richmond 64
Philadelphia New York
Trenton Delaware
Cromwell New Jersey
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Augusta
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a valiant recovery to three feet but his par wasn’t good enough as Watson stiffed his approach an inch from the hole and Verplank hit his to eight feet and made the clutch putt.
DISAPPOINTMENT FOR COREY PAVIN “The playoff was a little disappointing to me,” said Pavin. “I kind of popped up a three-wood there and left myself in a pretty precarious spot. Now, it’s just time to go back and play with golfers my own age (on the Champions Tour).” Pavin’s fine performance led writers to ask if he’d
consider serving as a playing captain at the Ryder Cup. “Being captain is pretty tough, just to do that,” he said. “Arnold Palmer was the last one to do that, and that was a
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