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Originally Posted by Aurora Tom
Please Bubba bogey 18 and miss the cut. He grinds on me just like Hellmuth.
There’s a great sound bite of a Steve Elkington recap from when Bubba threw multiple profanity grenades at his playing partners and the gallery when he thought someone talked during his swing at the Zurich Classic. Elk told him to be a pro and Bubba told him veterans could kiss his ass.
Apparently Elk threatened him on course so after they finished officials suggested he apologize. He went in and told Bubba if he saw him in the parking lot he was going to dismantle him. I used to have the audio of Elk describing what went down and it’s Radio HOF-worthy with BW crying and hiding behind officials.
Here’s a taste from the Golf Digest write-up:
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Afterward, Elkington and Watson settled their differences in the scoring hut. They were playing with Shigeki Maruyama who emerged from the glass-walled tent with his usual smile, bobbing and weaving like Sugar Ray Leonard. "Big problem," Shigeki said as he walked away.
Elkington, who finished the day three shots off Briny Baird's lead of eight under par, left without speaking to the media. Watson, on the other hand, apologized to virtually anyone who wasn't moving, as it were. He said he and Elkington had "hugged it out."
"I want to apologize to everybody in the tournament," Watson said. "Everybody who heard it, whoever saw it, especially Steve and Shigeki and their caddies. I heard something and I took it out on them and shouldn't have done it. I apologize to the tournament, to anybody that's involved in this tournament, all the volunteers, all the caddies, the spectators, the kids that came out here.”