LIV GOLF UNITED KINGDOM

July 26, 2025

Bubba Watson

JCB Golf and Country Club

RangeGoats GC

Quick Quotes

Q. How do you feel going into tomorrow? It's like, what do you do?

BUBBA WATSON: Exactly. I think you just play your same game. He's playing so good, you don't expect him to do anything, like come backwards. Wind direction -- I haven't looked at the weather. That can change a golf course or how we play it, pin setups.

But we're going to give it our all and then hopefully that's good enough, have a round like he's having today. He shoots like even or 1-under, whatever it is -- but we're just going to go out there and do the same thing and hopefully that's good enough or have a really high finish.

Q. I can't remember how many times you've played with him this year.

BUBBA WATSON: I have no idea.

Q. What do you see about his game? Why is he about to win maybe his fifth?

BUBBA WATSON: He's very consistent, very young, so that means he can -- he believes in himself. He's full of joy and energy when it comes to golf. He loves hitting shots. With the wind like this, he hits it low enough, especially with his driver, he can hit a straight ball. The wind doesn't really affect it as much. And he has a great short game. So a golf course like this, you hit the fairways, you have a chance to score, and that's kind of what I'm doing, and he's just doing it a little bit better. A lot better.

Q. Obviously even if it's a substantial lead, you've still got a chance to finish with a really high finish, maybe your best out here. How much would it mean to have that accomplishment tomorrow, however it turns out?

BUBBA WATSON: It would mean a lot. The last couple years, it's been a struggle. Been a struggle mentally, physically and golf-wise. You want to play better, right? A high finish puts me -- I think I'm like 30th or 31st in points so it'll probably put me back close to top 24.

I want to have a strong finish to the year, and I see that I can do it. Now, will I do it is the question. But I would love to finish in the top 20 if not better and have a chance to win and then challenge the Team Championship in match play.

All of this is a positive step forward going forward in my career. Obviously the better finish I can do, the better it is for me, better for the team, better for everything. Yeah, I'm going to get out there and battle.

Second place right now looks like it's a good place to finish, so it's going to be a battle for the second place, if nothing else.

Q. Do you feel like this is as good as you've played in however many years?

BUBBA WATSON: Yeah, I mentioned it yesterday on the after show, whatever that thing is called, and I mentioned it. You don't think about it until it happens, where my knee, my forward knee is where I like to put all my weight on chipping and putting, and then when you go through surgery and go through muscle changes, you kind of create bad habits, and so my bad habits, getting back on my heels, maybe even on my other side, so I'm not the same technique that I've always used, if that makes sense. So in all my years of practicing and playing, my technique has now changed over these last couple years, so we really dug in and tried to figure out what it is. So we've tried to figure out that, and I think we made a big step forward in finding out what it is.

As my leg gets stronger -- it takes two years for your leg to get stronger in that position, so here we are. Now we're talking to you about some of my best finishes. Hopefully we can keep it going.