Two-time Masters Champ Bubba Watson Set To Join LIV Golf

Yet another past Masters champion has landed with LIV Golf.

Bubba Watson is set to join the controversial Saudi-backed, Greg Norman-fronted rival tour, The Post has confirmed. The Telegraph was the first to report the news, also reporting that Watson will be paid more than $40 million in guaranteed money.

The 43-year-old Watson is the sixth former Masters champion to join LIV Golf, giving it nine of the last 19 winners at Augusta National on its growing roster of players.

Watson, who’s won 12 PGA Tour events, including the 2012 and 2014 Masters, joins fellow Green Jacket winners Phil Mickelson (three), Sergio Garcia, Patrick Reed, Charl Schwartzel and Dustin Johnson (each of whom has won once) as past Masters winners who’ve joined LIV Golf.

An official announcement hasn’t yet been made by LIV and is imminent, but the plan is for Watson to play in the tour’s next tournament, at the beginning of September in Boston, and become a captain of one of the teams in the 12-team LIV league in 2023.

Watson, who’s ranked 86th in the world, hasn’t played since May after he withdrew from the Charles Schwab Challenge due to a torn meniscus and has missed the last two major championships.

Watson finished runner-up by a shot to Harold Varner III at the Saudi International in February, a tournament that’s run by Golf Saudi and funded by the Public Investment Fund, which is the financial source behind LIV Golf.

At that time, when asked about Saudi Arabia’s poor human rights record, he praised the country for “trying to change.’’

“They started with women’s golf, started supporting the women’s golf [through a series of events on the Ladies European Tour] and then they started supporting men’s golf,’’ Watson said then. “There’s women’s tournaments already that they sponsor. [They’re] trying to grow the game. They’re trying to change industry over there, bring golf, bring tourism to Saudi Arabia with the beautiful beaches that they already have.’’

Watson, too, said, “It will be interesting to go over there and play, but also see the beauty of other parts of the world that God’s created,’’ adding, “I can’t wait to get over there.’’

Well, now the Saudis have him and, as soon as he tees it up in Boston, Watson will be suspended by the PGA Tour just as the other players who’ve signed with LIV Golf were as soon as they played with the tour.

LIV Golf’s third event is taking place this week at Trump Bedminster, where Charles Howell III, Paul Casey, Henrik Stenson and Jason Kokrak will be making their respective LIV Golf debuts.