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Thanks to video game, Watson only U.S. player familiar with Ryder venue

By Doug Ferguson
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Thanks to video game, Watson only U.S. player familiar with Ryder venue

This is one Ryder Cup in which none of the Americans have played the Celtic Manor Resort course, except for Bubba Watson -- from thousands of miles away. Watson has lost track how many times he has played the Twenty Ten Course on a video game. When he finally returned home from the PGA Championship, where he secured a spot on his first team, Watson said he played the video game five straight days "so I could see the course." "When we set it up easy, I shot like 56, 55," he said. "Setting it up hard, it was 67, with a gusty wind." The course probably won't play the same next week. And it most definitely won't sound the same.