Blog: A Good Weekend For Watsons

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- CommentAuthor14STIX
- CommentTimeJan 25th 2010
It was a good weekend to be a Watson. My childhood golfing idol and fellow Kansas Citian, Tom Watson, defeated Fred Couples at the Champions Tour's season opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship. Tom nearly shot is age on Friday, firing a smooth 63 and closed with rounds of 66 on Saturday and a 65 on Sunday that included birdies on the final two holes. The birdie on 18 was set up by a expertly struck pitching wedge from 147 yards in the first cut of rough that landed twenty feet from the hole and rolled to within four. Watson calmly knocked in the four-footer (though the stroke did have a little bit of that pulled inside-closed and pushed open follow through that we saw on the 18th at Turnberry last summer) and in doing so became the 13th oldest player to win on the Champions Tour.

Bubba Watson, of trick shot fame, also concluded the weekend in a good spot - on top of the leaderboard at the Bob Hope Classic. Watson and Alex Prugh share a one shot lead over Bill Haas heading into today's final round. A win for Bubba would be his first on tour and a second for Travis Mathew staffers in three weeks. Follow all the action over at PGAtour.com

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