How Bubba Watson Dreams & Sergio Garcia Feels

After Louis Oosthuizen made his double eagle on the par-five second hole, Bubba Watson's face went all Green Beret. He didn't need to dream, he needed to keep playing his game no matter what happened around him.

Watson is your standard-issue, late-blooming tour player. He played golf at a community college and has never taken a lesson. Like other players with unconventional swings Watson must have been easy to write off when he was coming up. Maybe he even wrote himself off. So, when it was finally time for him to slip on the green jacket he said he had never dreamed that big.

For Bubba Watson, his success has surpassed his dreams.

Sergio Garcia is a year younger than Bubba Watson. Garcia has 7 PGA Tour wins to Watson's 4. Most of Garcia's wins came smack in the middle of Tiger Woods glory years while most of Watson's wins have come after Woods' decline. Still, Garcia has stopped dreaming big. He has decided he's simply not good enough to win a major.

Maybe he's right.

On the other hand, it may be Garcia's simply gotten too comfortable telling us how he feels. It started at the British Open a few years back when he told us he felt as though he had to compete against something more than the rest of the field and reached its low point when he said, "I'm not good enough, and today I know it,"

Garcia was good enough to win the British Amateur when he was 18 and good enough to finish tied for second in the 1999 PGA when he was 19. Now, 13 years and 22 professional wins later all he can feel is that he's not good enough.

What Garcia doesn't get is that no one is good enough, regardless of how they feel, until they have gone out and done whatever they've set out to do.

Sergio Garcia should learn from Bubba Watson, forget about his dreams, and stop telling the world how he feels. If he wants to continue to play golf for a living all he has to do is tee it up on Thursday and count 'em up on Sunday.

The only place he's not good enough is in the interview room.