LIV GOLF GREENBRIER

August 15, 2024

Bubba Watson

The Old White

RangeGoats GC

Quick Quotes

Q. What was that like watching on Sunday, must have been nice.

BUBBA WATSON: It's very nice but it's difficult because you have a lot of things going on that way. When I say that, you had Thomas Pieters up there. I had a tough one, because both of our guys, and we are group texting, it's like, hey, both of you played well but at some point, some of y'all got to lose.

Then on Sunday you had Harold Varner, Harold Varner was in the final group with Peter. So that's another one. That's a great friend. Known him for a while. So you are not going to pull against them, right. You just want them to play great golf and whoever wins, wins. They just won that day.

So yeah there was a lot of emotions watching it. But obviously for Peter, man, he said it's been four years since he's won. It's kind of like Patrick Reed said earlier in the press conference. He's been out here a hundred rounds but he hasn't won. But he's played phenomenal golf. I think Peter finished third the first year, 12th or 14th last year, and so he's played really good golf.

So for him to win one, it's huge for his covered and it's huge for us because now us three want to back that up, right. We want to be there with him because now we are feeling he's going to play good this week just because he's coming off of great momentum.

Q. And he said that -- I talked to him yesterday, he said that he and his coach tried some different things and didn't really work out. So he went through that kind of tough stretch there.

BUBBA WATSON: Yeah, and it's hard to do, too, right. Because you want to, the off-season, you want to practise some things but then you get there and the real competition, and you're like hold on a second, this isn't working and this doesn't feel right.

And it's easy at home because there's not the pressure. He was struggling with his tee shots. His putting and chipping has always been phenomenal. Like there's not too many better than him out here.

And so his tee shots, s what was going, and I've never asked him what he was trying to do. Obviously try to hit fairways but -- so yeah they have been working really hard. I never met his coach until the last five events, maybe four events and his coach has been out trying to help him. His coach is here this week. They were just working on something.

We've seen it before throughout professional golf where guys are really good at certain areas but struggle with their driver or tee shots.

So we've made fun of Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods -- when people have made fun about them about their drivers, if they could hit it straight. But if they could hit it straight they wobble wouldn't be so good at the other stuff, right. They have won I think 44 and 82 times. So they are pretty good at their driver, you know.

With the question you asked, they were working on some stuff, trying to get the driver or tee shots in play. I think he put a hybrid in over the last couple weeks that he's really confident in off the tee. There's a lot of things and he hits it so far. He's like Bryson. He could hit hybrid and looks like a driver.

Q. What's his coach's name?

BUBBA WATSON: That's a great question, man. I stay out of the way. I don't want to hear what they are talking about. I just know they are here and after the practice round they go work -- or before the practice rounds they go work. I try not to get in the way of that.