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How is Bubba Watson allowed to use a pink (and green) golf ball at the Masters?

Published Apr. 7, 2017 4:43 p.m. ET Chris Chase The Masters. It's a tournament unlike any other —so austere and traditional that it forbids anyone to wear a backward hat, forcescaddies to wear white jumpsuits that make them look like backup dancers ina Puff Daddy video, compels its TV partners to refer to fans as "patrons," sand traps as "bunkers" and rough as "second cut" andsellsconcessionsat 1980s prices, among dozens of other like quirks that make Augusta National the most unique place in golf.And then you flip on the TV and in all the controlled, manufactured serenity of the most beautiful golf course in the world there heis —two-time Masters winnerBubba Watson, playing a golf ball that's pinkpink. Bright pink. Victoria's Secret pink. It's jolting in a world filled with green and white.Off the tee, on the fairway, nestled in the pine straw, into the green, dropping in the cup —the ball constantly seems out of place. It's never more jolting than when Bubba putts his pink ball on th...

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