Bubba: "Not missing golf at all."
Watson pulled out of the Wells Fargo Championship and The Players Championship to spend time at home with his wife, Angie, and newly adopted son, Caleb, who cannot leave Florida while the adoption process is finalized. He tweeted he will likely take the entire month of May off from the PGA Tour.
Asked by a fan on Twitter if he is itching to get back to playing, Watson replied, "Not missing golf at all."
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**John Feinstein takes issue with Bubba's critics.
I have been fortunate to become a father both biologically and through adoption. The only thing about the two that is identical is the way you feel: there isn’t a shred of difference in how much you love them.
Virtually everything else is different. You do not have nine months to prepare for the baby’s arrival. Sure, once you begin the adoption process you can buy all the requisite baby materials, but if you believe in karma even a little bit, you’re almost scared to do so.
More important, there is no way to prepare for the emotional roller coaster. There are almost always false starts: You think you’re going to get a baby and then, often at the last second, you don’t. Adoption laws have changed through the years to give adoptive parents more rights, but there are still cases where adoptive parents hold a child in their arms, instantly fall in love and then are told, “sorry, this isn’t your child.”
Thank God I never went through that but do know people who have. I can promise that every prospective adoptive parent lies awake at night worrying that it might happen to them.
Reader Comments (27)
That has nothing to do with adoption vs. natural birth.
I believe it was last week and Faldo did say Bubba skipping the Players was a "huge mistake" I immediately knew that given his track record Faldo would get skewered for his comments ;-) Well, that and the general nature of the PC world we live in these days ....
Did anyone ever figure out what afflicted Freddie Couples and kept him out of this event?
Has that bald headed dude on GC with all the great contacts reached out and gotten an update on Dustin Johnson? Is he done for the year? Does anyone care? No disrespect meant to Dustin, and I hope he's back real soon, but Joe LaCava's decision looking better and better!
This is one of the neat side effects of the Tiger boom: anyone can strike it rich very, very quickly without really seeming to do a whole lot.
Right Boo? Anyone seen that weirdo lately? Dude's a frickin' millionaire.
Bubba is a good man. He is putting his family first; its what most important to him obviously. If one faults this, then they are living their lives with jealousy in their heart. May we all be as rich in life as Bubba.
If you're looking for Zach Johnson, he is at the top of this week's leaderboard - against one of the two or three strongest fields of the year...
Like most of us, golfers are slaves to routine. What concerns me (and what I hate to see) is after a major win or other huge breakthrough victory or other event (e.g., massive publicized fight with spouse followed by contentiouus, publicized divorce), a talented golfer changes his routine. It may be from alteration in schedule secondary to appearances on Letterman and SNL. It may be a change in club manufacturer after an offer that cannot be refused. Or it may be a change in golf swing in attempt to gain some yardage or unintentional as with injury. Then the talented golfer inexplicably disappears from the top 30. Some times they get it back. But not always.
Heard from a very. very reputable source that DJ is not MIA for any orthopeadic reason, but instead fell hard off the wagon and is spending time in what used to be Lindsay Lohan's room!!!
Commissioner Denial has put this into deep space with his hyper spin.