{"id":413486,"date":"2011-05-01T23:05:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/01\/watson-edges-simpson-to-win-zurich-classic-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T23:05:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:05:18","slug":"watson-edges-simpson-to-win-zurich-classic-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/01\/watson-edges-simpson-to-win-zurich-classic-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson edges Simpson to win Zurich Classic (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"50.3066485753\">\n<p>AVONDALE, Louisiana (AP)\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/players\/4713\/\">Bubba Watson<\/a> won the Zurich Classic on Sunday for his second PGA Tour victory of the year and third overall, holing a 3-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff with <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/players\/8478\/\">Webb Simpson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After his 329-yard drive narrowly stayed out of the water and landed in a fairway bunker, Watson hit his second shot 210 yards to the green on the 568-yard, par-5 18th.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson\u2019s second shot landed in a bunker short of the green, and he blasted out to 12 feet.<\/p>\n<p>After Simpson narrowly missed his birdie putt, Watson holed out for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson, winless on the PGA Tour, was left to wonder what might have been if not for an unusual one-stroke penalty on 15 when his ball moved as he was addressing it on the green.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/43e535416f4e69f2430.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/sports\/rss\/golf\/SIG=11qo88rtl\/*http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/news?slug=ap-zurichclassic\" title=\"Watson edges Simpson to win Zurich Classic (AP)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watson edges Simpson to win Zurich Classic (AP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> AVONDALE, Louisiana (AP)\u2014 Bubba Watson won the Zurich Classic on Sunday for his second PGA Tour victory of the year and third overall, holing a 3-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff with Webb Simpson . After his 329-yard drive narrowly stayed out of the water and landed in a fairway bunker, Watson hit his second shot 210 yards to the green on the 568-yard, par-5 18th. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Watson edges Simpson to win Zurich Classic (AP) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/01\/watson-edges-simpson-to-win-zurich-classic-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Watson edges Simpson to win Zurich Classic (AP) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"AVONDALE, Louisiana (AP)\u2014 Bubba Watson won the Zurich Classic on Sunday for his second PGA Tour victory of the year and third overall, holing a 3-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff with Webb Simpson . 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