Bubba's Dream

Bubba Watson played a special round to tie for the championship of the Masters Tournament in 2012.  On the second playoff hole, he hit his first shot into the woods, his opponent had a poor lie but in the fairway rough. 

His ball was so far in the woods ,a miracle shot was the only way to get him on the green. The opening, not much more than 30 feet wide then a hard hook to the right, around the trees would get him to the green. 

The shot had to come out of the wood just next to the camera stand, then curve 45 degrees to get to the hole.

 

When it came out of the woods his shot flew in the air, landing in front of the green then rolled within 8 feet of the hole.

 

Hitting his first putt six inches past the hole, gave him not a tap in, but just about.  It made him think, every other time he'd dropped a shot like this with no thought, this time a miss would be disastrous.  How could he explain it to all those people when they said , "How could you miss that?

Stepping back to double check, he took another look, just to be sure, was it as easy as all those other times? A short swing, the sound (klop blop) of the ball dropping to the bottom of the hole, ended the flow. It's signal meant a bend down, sticking his fingers down the sides, and picking it out.

At that moment he heard the crowd, straightening up, it hit me. He had just won the biggest event of the sport he loved.

Fifteen minutes later in the clubhouse, he was asked how he felt, " I never thought that far in my dreams. "

So maybe the reason fantastic thing miss us, isn't that we don't dream, it's that we don't dream far enough.

Nice going.  Bubba