Golf World Monday - June 28, 2010

�winner bubba watson
now has something to talk
about besides his length
off the tee. at the travelers
championship watson, 31,
earned the first win of his
five-year pga tour career
with a two-putt par on the
second hole of sudden
death to edge scott Ver-
plank, who made bogey.
corey pavin, the third mem-
ber of the playoff, exited on
the first extra hole with par
when watson and Verplank
both made birdie.
the fairway bunker, topped
recovery shot into a water
hazard, missed green with
his fourth, double-bogey
6. but instead of giving up,
bubba ripped a 396-yard
drive on the par- 4 closing
hole at tpc river highlands
(helped in part by a friendly
bounce off a cart path), hit
his second to six feet and
made the birdie putt to tie
Verplank and pavin, who
had already finished, at
14-under 266.

pga tour // travelers championship
watson breaks through at the travelers

�key hole after taking the lead from a faltering Justin rose with a birdie at the par- 3 16th, watson made a mess of the 17th: tee shot in

�loser trying for his second pga tour win in as many starts, rose—who led by four after a 64-62 start— stumbled to a final-round 75 and finished t- 9.