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Breaking down Bubba Watson's missed handshake with Billy Payne

Found April 09, 2012 on Awful Announcing: Yardbarker Blogger Network
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Sure, Louis Oosthuizen's double eagle was amazing.  Yes, Bubba Watson's impossible snap hook wedge off the pine straw to win the green jacket was incredible.  However, the best Masters moment of 2012 came in famed Butler Cabin at the green jacket ceremony.  That's when we witnessed the biggest handshake fail ever seen on worldwide television.  For those of us that live in the 21st Century, it was great to see Bubba Watson diss the standard bearer for everything sexist, wrong, and backwards with Augusta National, Billy Payne.  (In what other sporting event does the tournament/event chairman need his stupid moment to welcome the play by play announcer and say what a "special" week it has been and bask in the warming glow of yesteryear.  Please.) As great as it would be to imagine Bubba Watson giving a giant middle finger to the dinosaurs at Augusta National with his handshake diss, I'm afraid a frame by frame analysis of the situation proves that just didn...
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