Nothing can stop Bubba Watson.
In round two of the Travelers Championship on Friday, the two-time Masters champ showed off just how precise he can be with his driver.
Watson was near the top of the leaderboard on Friday at the tournament in Cromwell, Conn, but had to overcome a bizarre situation when he snapped the head off his driver on the par-4 second hole. Somehow, the ball landed safely onto the fairway after curving left in the age.
“He managed to check his swing,” one commentator said about the swing that led to Watson’s broken driver head. “Somehow he felt something happen, he never went through with it.”
Watson’s caddie, Ted Scott, had to perform some club surgery so he could have his driver for the remainder of the round. Scott was seen on camera banging the club head on the ground and trying to remove broken bits of the shaft with his teeth.
The PGA tour has strict rules regarding replacing damaged clubs during an event. Only if a club is broken by natural causes or someone other than a player or their caddie can it be swapped out.
As of early Friday afternoon, Watson finds himself atop the tightly-packed leaderboard at TPC River Highlands at 8-under through two rounds.
The 42-year-old has not won a PGA Tour event since 2018, though that did come on this course