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Bubba Watson is quite a car guy. He's not in the Ian Poulter category – at least not yet – but is the proud owner of the General Lee, not to mention a bulletproof pickup truck, one sexy Corvette and a hovercraft that doubles as a golf cart.

 

As it turns out, his collection also included the beauty in the photo above – until Friday night, when he sold it during the big Barrett-Jackson winter auction in Scottsdale, Arizona.

 

Watson's car went for a whopping $410,000, and the two-time Masters champ donated every cent of the proceeds to Birdies for the Brave.

 

The car is a custom-built homage to the 1939 Cadillac LaSalle C-Hawk Custom Roadster, which was a favorite of legendary car designer Harley Earl. It's handcrafted out of steel and outfitted with a fuel-injected, supercharged 556-horsepower Cadillac LSA engine with a 6-speed automatic transmission and custom Borla exhaust.

 

This C-Hawk, as it's known, also has air conditioning, custom-designed billet wheels, power windows, a C4 Corvette suspension with DANA 44 rear end, Dakota digital instrumentation, hidden headlights, and both GPS and a sound system. 

 

"It's an honor to support the Green Beret Foundation and Birdies for the Brave, who do so much to give back to members of our U.S. Armed Forces and their families," Watson said when he entered the car into the auction a few weeks ago. 

 

Birdies for the Brave was created in 2006 by Phil and Amy Mickelson to support combat-injured troops, and the PGA Tour subsequently adopted it and expanded it to include a variety of military outreach and appreciation activities. To date, it has raised more than $13 million for charities that directly serve wounded warriors and military families.  

 

The Green Beret Foundation, which works with Birdies for the Brave, is also close to Watson's heart, seeing as how his late father, Gerry Watson, was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Special Forces during the Vietnam War, and taught Watson to play golf at the age of six. 

 

Bubba, by the way, spent part of his day playing golf with John Schneider, who of course played Bo Duke on "The Dukes of Hazzard." Even better, Watson got Schneider to autograph the General Lee – which, he stressed, is not for sale.

 

 



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I'm not a of fan of Bubba on the course, as a lefty it pains me to say that, but it really has to do with how he treat fans during the round, off the course he is a really good person, I wish he would take that to the course with him, as big of a star as he already is, he could be much, much bigger.

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