Bubba Watson loves pink. He's long had a pink shaft in his Ping drivers. We've seen him in pink shirts, pink pants, pink socks. "Pink has always made me stand out," Watson says.
Now, Watson will be swinging an all-pink driver as part of a charity effort with Ping. The driver, whose clubhead is pictured in two views at right, is a Ping G20 whose clubhead carries the words "Made Exclusively for Bubba."
As part of a larger fund-raising effort called "Bubba & Friends Drive to a Million," Ping will donate $300 for every drive of more than 300 yards that Watson hits with his pink driver. Up to a maximum of 300 drives - because Bubba hits a lot of 300-yard drives, he averaged 315 yards per drive in 2011.
Money raised with the pink driver goes to Phoenix-area charities selected by Ping with Watson's input.
"... I have extra motivation to hit the ball as far as I can," Bubba said. "My goal is to make Ping pay every cent."
Bubba's pink Ping G20 driver has a loft of 8.5 degrees; a 44.5-inch True Temper Grafalloy Bi-Matrix shaft (also pink); a Ping 703 Gold grip with 10 wraps of tape under his right hand and 12 wraps under his left hand. Look for it this week at the Farmers Insurance Open.
It's been a big week for Bubba. He also purchased the original "General Lee" car used in the television The Dukes of Hazzard.
(Photo courtesy of Ping Golf)
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