Bubba On Masters Shot: "So I saw it, and I go -- I go, 'whew, I'm pretty good.'"

The transcript isn't linked yet is now up*, but Bubba Waton's pre-Zurich Classic press conference included this about the Masters-clenching shot:

 Q. Can you please talk about the shot again at the Masters, and where do you think you get those, for lack of a better term, improvisational skills to kind of get out of things that don't seem like you can get out of?

BUBBA WATSON: Let's just go back to in Bagdad, Florida, where I grew up, the big, tall 100-year-old trees, I had plastic golf balls, so I just learned to hit in the trees, throughout the trees, over the trees, under the trees. So when it comes to the creativity on the golf course, that's just who I am. That's just what I've done. So that doesn't scare me. It thrills me because then I can pull off some shots. That's more exciting. I don't care if the fans were there or what, just to pull that shot off -- if I was just playing with my buddies I'd want
to pull that shot off.

The shot, again, was roughly say 40 yards.

Could have been more, could have been less, but we're going to go with 40. Just off the pine straw, knew it was going to come out pretty hot. I could make it come out hot, just rolled my wrist over and hooked it about 40 yards, but somehow it got closer to the hole. We were looking at the front of the green. It was 135 to the front of the green so we were just looking at getting to the center of the green. It just rolled up.

For me it was just something as a child I'm used to seeing shots like that, so I pulled it off. To get that close was very special. I mean, made it work out. I was expecting front of the green, maybe center of the green at best because you never expect it to be that close. But it came off and I couldn't see it. I ran to the fairway and I heard them roar, and I said, "where is it," he said, "you see it about 15 feet," and I couldn't see it at first, and finally, he's got real good eyes so I couldn't see it. So I saw it, and I go -- I go, "whew, I'm pretty good." That's how it all went down. But yeah, the shot was just something -- those shots, I draw -- try to pull off the amazing shot, just like we've seen Mickelson pull off shots, Tiger pull off shots, everybody that's won you've seen pull off shots like that. It's something you want to try to pull off, and somehow I did.

You'll be shocked to learn that I have a Golf World Voices item in this week's issue about the absurdity of kinescoped clips accounting for 175,000 views on YouTube because CBS and Augusta National do not realize that "the kids" today watch such things on their phones. Instead, they are too busy issuing copyright claims to put a clean version of the Bubba shot up for all to relive: