Watson Captures Travelers Golf Championship

Bubba Watson is hard to beat in a playoff. The long-driving lefty made an 8-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole Sunday to outlast Paul Casey and win the Travelers Championship for the second time. Watson improved to 5-1 when going to extra holes.

Casey overcame a three-stroke deficit with five to play, tying Watson at 16-under 264 in light rain at TPC River Highlands. But the 37-year-old Englishman, playing the tournament for the first time, lost his chance at the title while playing the par-4 18th for the third time when his third shot from a greenside bunker flew over the green and landed on the cart path.

Watson hit his 160-yard approach just to the right of the hole to set up his winning putt.

"I hung on, and that's what you have to do sometimes to win," Watson said.

Watson also needed extra holes to win the WGC-HSBC Champions in China in November at the start of the season and won the Travelers in 2010 in a three-way playoff for his first win on the PGA Tour.

"It's just about staying calm," he said. "That's what you have to do. You just breathe and walk slower, take some deep breaths and focus on the fact that no matter what you still come in second place."