Gary Lester ‘Bubba’ Watson Jr: Most entertaining guy in game of golf

Tiger Woods remains golf’s biggest star. But Gary Lester ‘Bubba’ Watson Jr, who won the Augusta Masters this week a second time (left), is the most entertaining guy in the game. The self-taught lefthander’s playing style is also bold and exciting, as the world saw when he hooked that sensational shot on the 10th hole during his first Masters win in 2012.

“The cool thing about Bubba is that he’s so unpolished,” former PGA champion Paul Azinger once said. “He’s not that groomed kind of player that grew up with a golf coach. He doesn’t have perfect hair, he doesn’t have perfect technique and he’s not wearing perfect clothes.”

Let us look at some zany moments from Bubba’s life and career.

Bubba the rapper

In 2011, four golf pros, Bubba, Ben Crane, Rickie Fowler and Hunter Mahan made a rap video and put it up on youtube. It got over six million hits.

My Friend Justin

Bubba has an unlikely good friend, someone much younger and a bit of a prima donna -Justin Bieber. We forgive him. Everyone makes some mistakes

Table tennis with a golf club

Pro athletes have magical ballstriking ability. Bubba showed this while filming an ad for a sports channel, in which he played table tennis with, guess what, his trademark pink driver.

Curving Glory

Closing stages of the 2012 Masters. It’s between Bubba and Louis Oosthuizen. Bubba crashes a wayward 343 yard drive into the trees. Only a miracle can save Bubba. A miracle is what follows. Bubba hits a wedge shot that bends in a ‘C’ shape around trees and, after a curling 160 yard flight, lands in the vicinity of the hole.