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    • Bubba's house is on the market for $1.49 million / Realtor.com

      Most of us will never be able to hit the ball "Bubba-long" or drive General Lee to the office, but if you have $1.49 million lying around the house, you can live like Bubba Watson.

      The Masters champ put his Lexington, N.C., home up for sale, and unlike some of the multimillion-dollar homes we've highlighted on Devil Ball in the past, Watson's home seems pretty reasonable compared to, say, Mickelson's 9,500-square-foot abode.

      Interested in purchasing the home? Here's an idea of what you get: Located on High Rock Lake, the 3,400-square-foot lake house (with four bedrooms, 4.5 baths) sits on more than half an acre. The home has two kitchens, plus an exterior kitchen with a barbecue pit, outdoor TV and saltwater pool and hot tub.

      But wait, there's more! Aside from the sweet home amenities, the house also includes a boat house, dock, covered boat storage and double Jet Ski dock (make sure Dustin Johnson stays away from this part of the house).

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    • Luke Donald / Getty ImagesLet's be honest, we're all incredibly busy. Nobody has time to sit down and watch four rounds of golf coverage -- unless, of course, you watch TV for a living, and if that's the case, please email us your number. So in an effort to condense the tournament coverage for you into a few quick hits, here are five things we learned from the RBC Heritage

      Carl Pettersson is on a roll — It's funny how things can change in the blink of an eye. Just a week after Carl Pettersson missed his second consecutive cut of the season at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, he showed up and posted a second-place finish at the Shell Houston Open. Despite missing out on the Masters, he kept the good vibes going two weeks later, winning for the fifth time in his PGA Tour career. Now 35th in the Official World Golf Ranking, the Swede is currently in the field for the 2013 Masters. And after another brilliant performance, finishing the week tops in putts per GIR and greens in regulation, there's a good chance this could be the start of a nice run for Pettersson. And to think, all it took was missing two cuts to make it happen.

      It's time to put out an APB for Luke Donald's putting stroke — We tend to take players like Luke Donald for granted. One of the most consistent golfers on tour, you just expect him to show up and post top 10's. When you have one of the most pure putting strokes on tour, people just assume you're going to contend. But over the last couple of weeks, Donald's putter has gone ice cold. After averaging 1.61 putts (including four three-putts) at the Masters, things continued to go downhill at the RBC Heritage. Donald averaged 1.857 putts per GIR (tied for 69th in the field), a figure that seems unfathomable for one of the game's best putters. It's hard to tell where things went wrong for the No. 2-ranked player in the world, but something's clearly off at the moment.

      Harbour Town Golf Links wins the distance battle — As club manufacturers continue to produce clubs that make the ball go a country mile, courses have tried their best to combat the increase in distance by growing out the rough and adding an additional 400-500 yards in an effort to make things interesting. At just 7,101 yards, you'd think Harbour Town Golf Links, one of the shorter tracks on the PGA Tour, would get killed. But that doesn't appear to be the case. Only 23 players in the field managed to break par for the week, and the course played over par all four days. With postage stamp greens and some of the narrowest fairways on tour, Harbour Town once again proved you don't have to be 7,600 yards to give golfers a serious test.

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    • Ruthless! Efficient! Carl Pettersson led off his final round with a birdie barrage, and didn't let up until he ended up with a lovely tartan jacket and a five-shot victory at the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links. You know, when you hear that you'll win a jacket in April in a golf tournament, your mind probably goes in a certain direction, but still ... this ain't bad. Congrats to Carl. Now, on to Texas!

    • Them Watsons! (via @bubbawatson)

      As you know, Bubba Watson just won the Masters. As you probably also know, Bubba Watson bought the very first General Lee from the "Dukes of Hazzard" TV show at auction. Here's a (Photoshopped) look at what 2013 will hopefully bring at Augusta, courtesy of Bubba's Twitter feed. Hey, if he can't drive it at a NASCAR race, maybe he can wheel it up Magnolia Lane.

      Make this happen, Bubba. You're one of them now.

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    • Follow Jay Busbee on Twitter at @jaybusbee.

      Look, let's be honest: as great as Bubba Watson's shot to win the Masters last week was, it wasn't like the ball was going to, say, EAT him if he misplayed it.

      The scene: the 15th hole of the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head, S.C. Golfer Brian Gay was greenside, but he wasn't alone ... there was a freaking alligator right there with him. So Gay's caddie Kip Henley stepped up and rousted the gator. (And, yes, insert obligatory "Happy Gilmore"/Chubbs reference here.)

      Gay would go on to bogey the hole, which is really about the best-case scenario. Henley, for his part, just made the game of golf 25 percent cooler.

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    • The RBC Heritage is underway, and catch up with all the events of the first round. Matt Kuchar, Zach Johnson, John Daly (really) and many others had some fine moments on Hilton Head island. But it was Chad Campbell, Colt Knost and Vaughn Taylor who snagged the early lead together. Play continues Friday and on into the weekend.

    • Lee Westwood comes up short on the 13th at Augusta. (Getty Images)Lost in Bubbarama, Oosty's Albatross, Phil's Pholly and KickGate was the fact that Lee Westwood gave himself a fairly decent chance of winning the Masters.

      Yes, Lee Westwood, the guy who's now lost 54 consecutive majors. As GolfTalkCentral notes, Westy is now in the market for a new putting coach after giving Phil Kenyon the boot.

      "I don't know how much difference Kenyon's made," said Chubby Chandler, Westwood's manager. "I don't think he's made any. Whether that stays the same or not, hmmm. But Lee will keep working."

      How critical was Westwood's putting? This: He finished two strokes off the lead. But he took128 putts, while Bubba Watson needed 120 to win, and Phil Mickelson got out the door with only 107 putts. Westwood ranked 59th in putting among the 62 players who made the cut.

      A late charge, where he dropped four birdies over the last six holes, helped put him on the outskirts of contention. Better play throughout the week would have had him in charge.

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    • Image via GolfMagic.comIf that brand-spankin'-new Callaway RAZR driver or TaylorMade Ghost Putter you see on eBay for $39.95 seems too good of a deal to be true, chances are it is. There's a thriving business in counterfeit clubs, and they're a lot tougher to weed out than finding the ones spelled "Pinng" and "Titlist."

      Good news, though: Life just got a little bit tougher for those trying to pawn off knockoff clubs on an unsuspecting public. Via Hooked On Golf, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has shuttered more than 175 websites trafficking in counterfeit clubs. This follows the closure of another 60 websites in January.

      According to the U.S. Golf Manufacturers' Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group (boy, that's not an unwieldy title at all), more than 130 defendants representing the more than 175 sites sold clubs, balls and other accessories. But if you visit those sites now, boom: no more.

      The group tries to educate consumers about the dangers of counterfeit clubs via its website

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    • There are plenty of memorable landmarks along the PGA Tour, including marble walls, insane bunkers and the lunatic coliseum out in Scottsdale, Arizona. (The list, alas, does not include majors, so no Rae's Creek.) Where does the lighthouse at Harbour Town Golf Links, site of this weekend's RBC Heritage, rank? Only one landmark on the Tour beats it ... and if you think, you can probably guess which one.

    • Harbour Town Golf Links / Getty ImagesIt's tournament time! The PGA Tour heads down the road from Augusta, Ga., to Hilton Head, SC, for the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links. Here's a tournament primer to get you prepared for the week.

      The course: The Pete Dye designed Harbour Town Golf Links is one of the top stops on the schedule each year. Despite being one of the shortest at 6,973 yards, the par 71 course was ranked as the 21st most difficult (out of 51) on tour in 2011. What the course lacks in length, it more than makes up for with small greens and incredibly narrow fairways. This is a shot-maker's course where hitting the proper spot is absolutely critical if you want to take home the Tartan jacket given to the winner each year. Harbour Town's 18th hole is one of the most famous finishing holes in golf. The 472-yard par-4 has famed Calibogue Sound as a backdrop and on days when the wind is up, the hole can almost play like a short par-5. The postage stamp green has little room for error on the left side of the green; wayward shots usually find the marsh, making par nearly impossible.

      The schedule: The tournament runs Thursday-Sunday. It'll be broadcast on the Golf Channel from 3 to 6 p.m. ET on Thursday and Friday, and on CBS from 3 to 6 p.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday.

      The field: Luke Donald (No. 1) and Webb Simpson (10) are the only members of the Official World Golf Ranking top 10 in the field this week. Kyle Stanley, Mark Wilson, Bill Haas, Jim Furyk, Matt Kuchar and Ernie Els also plan to tee it up at Harbour Town. Even though the tournament has the unenviable position of being the week after the Masters, tournament officials have embraced the role over the years. The tournament's family friendly atmosphere is a big reason why some of the top players in the game make the trip to Harbour Town each year.

      One name you won't see in the field this week is five-time RBC Heritage winner Davis Love III, who pulled out of the tournament with cracked ribs. He hasn't played since the Arnold Palmer Invitation in March.

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