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Bubba Watson's Ryder Cup practice gamble impressed Jordan Spieth
Bubba Watson had a chance to make an impression on some of his potential U.S. Ryder Cup teammates on Monday in an informal practice session as host Hazeltine National in Minnesota.
From how Jordan Spieth told the story of the last hole of that round, Watson seemed to do just that.
Watson, Justin Thomas and Daniel Berger were the three Ryder Cup hopefuls invited to join Spieth and some others, and a group of five — Spieth, Watson, Thomas, Berger and Brooks Koepka — got together to play the popular golf game Wolf. The rules are pretty simple. Everyone gets a turn to be the wolf, going last in the lineup. After each player before them hits, the wolf decides if they want to partner up with them for the hole to take on the others in a best-ball match. However, the wolf can also choose to go it alone — as a lone wolf, if you will — and try to win on their own for extra points.
We’ll let Spieth pick it up from there.
“We played a wolf game and on 18, [Watson] drove it down the fairway, and he went lone,” Spieth said. “He didn’t pick anybody. And he hit it up there, and three guys — I was the only one who wasn’t inside his putt for birdie. Three other guys were. So he was at an extreme disadvantage, and he banged it in the back of the hole, won the hole. The next three missed, and he took home the money. He was screaming about it on the 18th green, you know. He made the putt that — so he was in great spirits. We had a great time.”
Spieth was still buzzing about it on Tuesday.
“You don’t get to play those types of games that you play at home with the best players in the world,” Spieth said. “I mean, you play like little matches here and there, but you don’t get to play like a wolf game or something like that. I love that.”
Who knows if a moment like that can help Watson land a spot on the Ryder Cup team, but it certainly can’t hurt to show that kind of chutzpah. Watson, and the others, will find out who is the 12th and final U.S. Ryder Cup team member on Sunday at halftime of Sunday Night Football when captain Davis Love III makes the selection public.
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