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Bubba Watson is now part owner of a minor league baseball team

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11 years ago

Jan 20, 2015

It was an interesting 2014 for Bubba Watson, one that started with a proclamation for personal growth, saw the greatest extended stretch of golf in his career and devolved into a series of picked-apart incidents of the American’s perceived petulance.

So what’s in store for a follow up? Well, Watson has already made news for something other than his golf performance in 2015, but this time it is not controversial.

The 36-year-old announced on Monday that he’s joining the Double-A Pensacola Blue Wahoos as a part owner, a move predicated on his close ties to this Cincinnati Reds affiliate squad.

Watson is good friends with the team’s two primary owners and has attended several Blue Wahoos games in recent years, as the team is situated about 20 miles from Watson’s hometown of Bagdad, Fla. In addition, he has thrown out the first pitch at a Blue Wahoos game and participated in batting practice with the squad.

In classic Bubba fashion, he took some swings with a pink bat at the Blue Wahoos’ stadium following his introduction as a new part owner.

Watson received some slack for a series of actions throughout the second half of 2014. In July, the 36-year-old complained that the press never said anything positive about him, and followed that up with a whirlwind August that included a bizarre diatribe against a harmless long drive contest, and an alarming showcase of poor attitude at the PGA Championship.

And maybe it wasn’t a personal shortfalling, but do we even need to get into Bubbaclaus?

It’s a new year, and maybe a new Bubba.

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Kevin Casey

Kevin's fascination with the game goes back as long as he can remember. He has written about the sport on the junior, college and professional levels and hopes to cover its proceedings in some capacity for as long as possible. His main area of expertise is the PGA Tour, which is his primary focus for GolfWRX. Kevin is currently a student at Northwestern University, but he will be out into the workforce soon enough. You can find his golf tidbits and other sports-related babble on Twitter @KevinCasey19. GolfWRX Writer of the Month: September 2014

1 Comment

Nice

Jan 21, 2015 at 9:28 am

Wah! the media never cuts me any slack. Poor blubba. Actually the media cuts him a lot of slack. I wish they would out him as the person a lot of people know him as and that person is not pretty. Bubba hides behind his antics but inside he is a mess. It doesn’t happen very often but he is an example of a rich and famous (person) that normal people should feel sorry for…

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