TOUR REPORT: BUBBA?S NEW CAR? PIECE OF CHILDHOOD
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Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM Chief of Correspondents
LA JOLLA, Calif. — The first thing Bubba Watson did was gas the vehicle up and conduct for an In-N-Out burger corner where 3 dozen people clamored to sit in the orange 1969 Dodge Charger and have their design taken.
This wasn’t any aged car. This was a single of the strange high-flying General Lees that appeared in the “Dukes of Hazzard” radio show. Because the uncover crashed so many, only a couple of survived. This sold vehicle was used in the show’s opening (where it jumped the police car). It was damaged, though easy and put on the auction block.
Watson paid for the vehicle final week at the Barrett-Jackson vehicle auction in Scottsdale for $110,000. The 32-year-old, who grew up in the Florida swindle in a small locale called Bagdad, has regularly been a air blower of the cult classic from the late 1970s and early ’80s.
According to the vehicle website Autoblog,com, Bubba’s sale cost was a steal.
“Well, my name’s Bubba, so…,” Watson pronounced in explanation. “It was only great aged nation boys. I grew up seeking at Boo Weekley, so it was kind of only fitting, you know. I only desired it. I love the show. I adore all those aged shows. …
“After I paid for the car, we figured out that in 6 days after I was born, that’s when the vehicle jumped for the first time. So, I mean, 6 days aged and the vehicle jumped in 1978. So right divided I own it, so that’s flattering cool.”
Watson, who defends his third PGA TOUR pretension this week at the Farmers Insurance Open, remembers you do a underline on the Golf Channel when he was still personification the Nationwide Tour. The theme of cars came up, and Watson pulled out his DVD collection of “Dukes of Hazzard” episodes.
“So there is explanation that I’ve desired that car, and I’ve desired that uncover forever,” Watson said. “My wife, at the time we met, she knew that I desired that vehicle and I longed for one. We done a understanding behind afterwards that if I ever won a golf tournament, she would let me get one. So I won 3 (tournaments), and I eventually found a single I liked.
“It’s Lee 01, so it worked out in my favor. I wasn’t starting to go many more income than that given they were presaging a lot aloft numbers, though for some reason it only fell in my lap.”
Watson pronounced the poke began a prolonged time ago — “the winning was the tough part,” he said. Watson’s initial feat came at the 2010 Travelers Championship, a quite romantic win given his father was failing of cancer.
“So it was opposite emotions then,” Watson said. “But when we eventually got behind and got divided from the golf march and went behind to our hotel, I looked at her and she pronounced ‘No. You’re not getting a General Lee. You can’t have that Confederate dwindle on the roof. I pronounced it’s not about the Confederate flag, it’s about the uncover and what it stands for. It’s the many tangible car.’”
Watson motionless to burst over the Humana Championship this year, and a friend asked him to go to the Barrett-Jackson auction. The General Lee was sitting there in all the glory, the initial vehicle Watson laid eyes on when he got to the auction.
“I roughly upheld out when I saw it,” he said.
Watson pronounced the vehicle is “jump ready” with hurl bars “So it’s not like it’s easy to get into,” he said. He skeleton to revive the vehicle to “pristine” condition though doesn’t devise to ever burst it.
“But I want to drive it,” Watson said. “I’m not starting to sit it similar to an aged man only sit it and glance at it in the garage. I’m starting to expostulate it, honk the Horne at people and all that great stuff.
“It will be at Phoenix subsequent week (for the Waste Management Phoenix Open). It’s great sufficient to expostulate to Phoenix, though don’t discuss it anybody it doesn’t have any chair belts yet.”
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Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM Chief of Correspondents
LA JOLLA, Calif. — The first thing Bubba Watson did was gas the vehicle up and conduct for an In-N-Out burger corner where 3 dozen people clamored to sit in the orange 1969 Dodge Charger and have their design taken.
This wasn’t any aged car. This was a single of the strange high-flying General Lees that appeared in the “Dukes of Hazzard” radio show. Because the uncover crashed so many, only a couple of survived. This sold vehicle was used in the show’s opening (where it jumped the police car). It was damaged, though easy and put on the auction block.
Watson paid for the vehicle final week at the Barrett-Jackson vehicle auction in Scottsdale for $110,000. The 32-year-old, who grew up in the Florida swindle in a small locale called Bagdad, has regularly been a air blower of the cult classic from the late 1970s and early ’80s.
According to the vehicle website Autoblog,com, Bubba’s sale cost was a steal.
“Well, my name’s Bubba, so…,” Watson pronounced in explanation. “It was only great aged nation boys. I grew up seeking at Boo Weekley, so it was kind of only fitting, you know. I only desired it. I love the show. I adore all those aged shows. …
“After I paid for the car, we figured out that in 6 days after I was born, that’s when the vehicle jumped for the first time. So, I mean, 6 days aged and the vehicle jumped in 1978. So right divided I own it, so that’s flattering cool.”
Watson, who defends his third PGA TOUR pretension this week at the Farmers Insurance Open, remembers you do a underline on the Golf Channel when he was still personification the Nationwide Tour. The theme of cars came up, and Watson pulled out his DVD collection of “Dukes of Hazzard” episodes.
“So there is explanation that I’ve desired that car, and I’ve desired that uncover forever,” Watson said. “My wife, at the time we met, she knew that I desired that vehicle and I longed for one. We done a understanding behind afterwards that if I ever won a golf tournament, she would let me get one. So I won 3 (tournaments), and I eventually found a single I liked.
“It’s Lee 01, so it worked out in my favor. I wasn’t starting to go many more income than that given they were presaging a lot aloft numbers, though for some reason it only fell in my lap.”
Watson pronounced the poke began a prolonged time ago — “the winning was the tough part,” he said. Watson’s initial feat came at the 2010 Travelers Championship, a quite romantic win given his father was failing of cancer.
“So it was opposite emotions then,” Watson said. “But when we eventually got behind and got divided from the golf march and went behind to our hotel, I looked at her and she pronounced ‘No. You’re not getting a General Lee. You can’t have that Confederate dwindle on the roof. I pronounced it’s not about the Confederate flag, it’s about the uncover and what it stands for. It’s the many tangible car.’”
Watson motionless to burst over the Humana Championship this year, and a friend asked him to go to the Barrett-Jackson auction. The General Lee was sitting there in all the glory, the initial vehicle Watson laid eyes on when he got to the auction.
“I roughly upheld out when I saw it,” he said.
Watson pronounced the vehicle is “jump ready” with hurl bars “So it’s not like it’s easy to get into,” he said. He skeleton to revive the vehicle to “pristine” condition though doesn’t devise to ever burst it.
“But I want to drive it,” Watson said. “I’m not starting to sit it similar to an aged man only sit it and glance at it in the garage. I’m starting to expostulate it, honk the Horne at people and all that great stuff.
“It will be at Phoenix subsequent week (for the Waste Management Phoenix Open). It’s great sufficient to expostulate to Phoenix, though don’t discuss it anybody it doesn’t have any chair belts yet.”
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