captioning funded by cbs and ford. we go further, so you can. >> bill whitaker: i think americans think, crime and punishment. and punishment. you say punishment is not even part of the goal. >> no. >> in a german prison. >> no, not at all. >> so life inside prison mirrors life outside as much as possible. germans call it "normalization." this place is reserved for the worst of the worst: murderers, rapists, career criminals. >> it is unbelievable. you are in for murder and you have a key to your cell. ♪ >> leslie stahl: "an american in paris" is a love story. but also a valentine to dance. all kinds.

♪ broadway hoofing, tap and above all, ballet. sensual, dazzling, daring ballet. choreographer christopher wheeldon has had such an impact, he makes ballet fun to watch even for people who think they will hate it. >> sharyn alfonsi: bubba watson is left-handed, self-taught and looking for his third green jacket next weekend at the masters in augusta. a pretty amazing story, but you haven't heard the half of it. >> i have a lot of mental issues that i just have been so fearful of things which i shouldn't be right? scared of heights, scared of buildings falling on me, scared of the dark, scared of crowds, those are my biggest issues. >> alfonsi: how do you reconcile that when you have to go out there and play golf with

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population, but 25% of its prisoners. the cost of housing all those inmates: $80 billion a year. we found that american politicians and prison supervisors are looking for new ideas in germany. the main objective of german prisons is rehabilitation, not retribution. germany spends less money on prisons, but gets better results. their recidivism rate is about half the u.s. rate. we wondered if germany had found a key to prison reform. so we visited three german prisons, but our trip started in a small resort town about 100 miles north of berlin. when the weather's warm, the lakeside town of waren, germany attracts families and tourists. we found bernd junge there with his sister and niece out for a stroll, eating ice cream sundaes an innocent scene if ever there was one. but junge is a convicted

murderer, currently serving a life sentence for a contract killing. he shot a woman to death in cold blood. we spoke with him by the lake. this is part of your sentence. this is part of your punishment? >> bernd junge( translated ): well this is about being reintegrated into a normal life and that means rehabilitation and all that, so for me, yes this is part of it. >> whitaker: this doesn't look much like punishment. >> junge : yes, well that's the german fairy tale. >> whitaker: after 15 years in prison he's earned weekend leave for good behavior. he's on track for early release. in germany, 75% of lifers are paroled after 20 years or less. >> joerg jesse: if someone says to himself it's a german fairy tale, if he doesn't commit any crimes anymore after release it's okay. he can think about his imprisonment, what he wants. >> whitaker: jrg jesse is a psychologist by training. he's now director of prisons in

mecklenburg-western pomerania, a state in north germany along the baltic, about the size of new hampshire. there are rich fields here brilliant sunsets, and waldeck the maximum security prison where bernd junge is serving time. should he have a future for himself? he took a life. >> jesse: yes, he should. >> whitaker: he should? >> jesse: he should. >> whitaker: jesse invited us to waldeck to show us how the german system works. >> jesse: the real goal is re- integration into society, train them to find a different way to handle their situation outside life without further crimes, life without creating new victims, things like that. >> whitaker: where does punishment come in? >> jesse: the incarceration, the imprisonment itself is punishment. the loss of freedom, that's it. >> whitaker: i think americans think crime and punishment. you say punishment is not even part of the goal of the german

prison. >> jesse: no. >> whitaker: at all? >> jesse: not at all. >> whitaker: so life inside prison mirrors life outside as much as possible. germans call it "normalization." it starts with small prison populations. low-level offenders get fines or probation. prison is reserved for the worst of the worst: murderers, rapists, career criminals. we were surprised how quiet and peaceful it was inside waldeck. we wondered where all the inmates were. it turns out they were relaxing outside on this sunny day. this is unbelievable. you're in for murder and you have a key to your cell. cells have doors, not bars. it's for privacy. inmates can decorate as they please. we saw joerg muehlbach playing video games in his cell. he told us he was convicted of large scale cocaine trafficking and gun possession. he's serving seven years.

compared to cells in the united states this is quite luxurious. >> joerg muehlbach ( translated ): yes, it is comfortable here. as a prisoner here, it's alright. >> whitaker: he says being separated from his family makes prison hard, not the conditions. he has a private bathroom and things that would give american prison guards the jitters. you have darts. you've got a letter opener. you have legs on the table that you could break off and use as a club. you've got quite a bit of freedom in here? >> muehlbach: gosh, i haven't even thought about that. here this is normal. >> whitaker: muehlbach's day is normal too. he gets up and goes to work in the prison kitchen. after his shift, there's r&r: darts in the common room, beach volleyball in the yard. there's a lot to do, he told us. >> muehlbach: painting course,

pottery, soccer, gym crocheting. >> whitaker: painting and crochet? >> muehlbach: yes, painting and crochet. and in crochet we make hats, oven mitts, whatever you need. >> whitaker: we visited several german prisons and were amazed how laid back everybody seemed at each of them, prisoners and guards. heidering prison, outside berlin, is as clean and bright as a google campus. the prison is surrounded by fences, not walls, so inmates can see the outside world. the prison uniform? street clothes. for the inmate who finds this too stressful, there's yoga. this probably isn't the image that comes to mind when most americans think of german prisons. that's likely to conjure up brutal images from world war ii. but following that war, respect for the human dignity and freedom of all people was written into the german constitution. privacy is sacrosanct. there is no death penalty.

at old facilities like tegel in berlin, or new ones like heidering, the focus is on humane treatment and rehabilitation. prison guards are key. they're well paid and highly trained. they spend two years learning psychology, communication skills, conflict management. jesse calls them "calm down" experts. >> jesse: calming down, calming down, calming down. not showing power too much. not showing guns. not showing weapons. >> whitaker: they use solitary confinement, sparingly. jesse says there's little violence in german prisons. how do you explain that? >> jesse: if you treat them as if they are your enemy, they will react as enemies. they will react as dangerous. >> whitaker: in fact, many of them are dangerous. we we're up there on a row where everyone you ask was in for murder, murder, murder. >> jesse: they're all human

beings, and they know a violent manner. and we do exactly the other way around. "don't be aggressive." show them that there is a different kind of conversation possible. >> whitaker: the conversation starts right away. it's based on therapy. psychologists make an initial assessment of all new inmates and devise personalized prison plans for them: recommendations for counseling, classes, vocational training and work. inmates who follow the plan earn greater freedoms and early release. >> jesse: we cannot see the sense in just locking people up for their whole lives. your prisons will fill up and you'll have to build new prisons and so on and i think that was the situation in the u.s. >> whitaker: with more than two million inmates in u.s. prisons, more americans are coming to germany seeking solutions. >> american tour: it's like a dorm. this would be a nice dorm room for the ivy league. >> whitaker: we joined u.s. prison and law enforcement

officials on this tour in berlin. connecticut governor dannel malloy was part of the group. he was impressed by what he saw. >> dan malloy: i can tell you, they have a lower crime rate than we do. they have a lower recidivism rate than we do, and they're spending a lot less money on jails. >> whitaker: in the u.s., we've got much greater access to guns. we've got race as a factor and ethnicity as a factor. are the things being done here directly transferable to the united states? >> malloy: i think there are many things that are transferable. that doesn't mean that it's a perfect fit. but i think we have to challenge ourselves to do better. >> whitaker: this doesn't have the same vibe, doesn't feel like the prisons in germany at all. >> john wetzel: little bit more intense, maybe. >> whitaker: little bit more intense. john wetzel is pennsylvania's secretary of corrections. three years ago, he went to germany looking for ideas to improve his prisons. he showed us around graterford outside philadelphia. it's the largest maximum security prison in pennsylvania.

3,300 prisoners are packed in here. we were walking through an 80- year-old cell block. >> wetzel: i'll stop back. >> whitaker: when this inmate approached, he said he was a low level drug offender. >> prisoner: sometimes, it be leaking on the block, people dying in their cells, the water stinks. did you smell the water? water smells like it's coming out of the sewer hole. >> wetzel: you're preaching to the choir. i've done as much as i could for. >> prisoner: i mean, for real, there ain't nothing but poor black and latino people in the jail. it's bad in here man, it's bad. >> wetzel: yeah? i mean, look around. >> prisoner: it's bad. >> whitaker: wetzel started as a prison guard three decades ago. back in 1980, there were 8,000 inmates in the state. today, there are 50,000. physical and sexual assaults are a fact of life. at graterford, there are more than 700 lifers. >> wetzel: pennsylvania's a state where life means life. so, if you're doing life here you're not going to be walking around a park eating sundaes with your family. >> whitaker: when wetzel was in

germany, joerg jesse gave him a tour of waldeck. you were skeptical. >> wetzel: it almost sounded like disneyland. "oh, there's very few inmates. inmates have their own keys and everybody gets along and everything's hunky-dory." i mean, who's buying that story? not me. by the end of his visit, wetzel was buying it. he started implementing some of the things he saw in germany like more intensive staff training, greater freedom for inmates with good behavior and programs to help them re-enter society. we, the american public, called for tougher sentencing, throwing away the key. are we there for this more lenient approach? >> wetzel: i think our culture we don't want to think lenient. we don't want to think soft. we got here by being tough on crime. i think we're getting away from it by being smart on crime, and smart on crime happens to be more lenient. >> whitaker: sometimes, germans

think their prisons are too lenient. but the system is mandated and protected by the country's highest court. there are problems. they have gangs. they have drugs. they've seen signs of islamic radicalization. they try to counter it all with counseling. but there are inmates deemed too dangerous to release. they wind up in something called preventive detention. at berlin's tegel prison, we met chris templiner. he has spent the last 18 years not knowing when or if he'll ever get out. >> chris templiner: they think i'm dangerous so what can i say? what can i show them? i don't know. >> whitaker: you did bad things? >> templiner: really bad things, yes. >> whitaker: he wouldn't tell us his crimes and german privacy laws kept us from finding out. his life is confined to this well-appointed, apartment-like building. look around, this is life in

prison for germany's worst offenders. you expect to be here until you die? >> templiner: maybe. yes. >> whitaker: but convicted murderer bernd junge expects to get out in september. he stuck to his plan and earned the freedom to leave prison every day for work: a maintenance job at the nearby port. you could escape if you wanted to. >> bernd junge: yes. >> whitaker: but you don't? >> junge: no. >> whitaker: why not? >> junge ( translated ): very simple. my time is almost over. and i want to be done with this chapter of my life, once and for all. >> whitaker: at pennsylvania's graterford prison, this is where murderers are housed, locked up 23 hours a day. >> i'm still hungry. still hungry. >> wetzel: i think more now than any time in the history of our country we have the right and left agree that we've frankly screwed up the corrections system for 30 years and it's time to do something different.

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>> leslie stahl: christopher wheeldon is one of the most celebrated choreographers in the world today, turning the tradition-bound dance form into something athletic, sensual and edgy. wheeldon was born in england and

trained at the royal ballet, where he is artistic associate. he's only 43, but has already created over 90 works, many for the world's major ballet companies. last spring, he pulled off a coup only a very few dance- makers have ever done: he directed & choreographed a smash broadway musical. it was inspired by the gene kelly movie "an american in paris," with music by george and ira gershwin. it received 12 tony nominations and proved that wheeldon can make ballet fun to watch, even for people who think they'll hate it. ♪ "an american in paris" is a love story. it's also a valentine to dance all kinds: broadway hoofing, tap and above all, ballet.

sensual, dazzling, daring ballet. ♪ not only did christopher wheeldon choreograph the show, he also directed it, something he'd never done before, and that was scary. >> christopher wheeldon: good. ok, good guys. well done. >> stahl: you gave new meaning to the expression, "learn on the job?" >> wheeldon: yeah. >> stahl: for sure. >> wheeldon: in at the deep end. >> stahl: because you had never directed anything with words. >> wheeldon: they probably couldn't see the sweat kind of trickling down the back of my neck. >> ♪ i've got rhythm. >> stahl: it didn't hurt that he had music by the gershwins to work with. >> ♪ who could ask for anything more? >> wheeldon: ready? >> stahl: he started with what

he knew best: the dancing and ballet dancers, robbie fairchild and leanne cope. for wheeldon, learning on the job turned out pretty okay. the show is a big hit, and he won a tony for best choreography. the critics just loved the show. was it a turning point in your life? >> wheeldon: i certainly felt like a door was flung open. >> stahl: for now, wheeldon is taking what he learned from broadway back into his first and abiding love, classical ballet which he discovered as a little boy growing up in a small village in the south west of england. when he was seven, he talked his parents into letting him take ballet lessons. >> wheeldon: i was hooked from the get-go. >> stahl: what was the get-go? >> wheeldon: the get-go was a little ballet school in a village hall and a bunch of girls around the barres on the side of the hall and it was the

first place that i felt really at home. >> stahl: at ten, he auditioned and was accepted at the royal ballet school known as white lodge, a boarding school in london's richmond park originally the hunting lodge for the royal family. up to then, he had kept his dancing a secret from his classmates. >> wheeldon: i went to an all- boys prep school, and my headmaster was so proud that one of his students had been accepted into this big institution that he announced it in school assembly one morning. and i still had about six months to go at the school. so my secret was out and it was b-- it was a pretty-- it was a pretty hellish ( laughs ) six months. >> stahl: they did tease you. >> wheeldon: i-- i was teased, yeah. >> stahl: wheeldon lived at white lodge between the ages of 11 and 16. it was competitive and grueling. students here spend four to five hours a day dancing, and have to re-audition every year.

in his time, wheeldon was taught by a tough, old-school russian ballet master. >> wheeldon: he was strict with us. he picked me up by my hair once because i wasn't jumping high enough. it was-- ( laughs ) i don't think i'll ever forget that. >> stahl: did you ever want to quit? >> wheeldon: i don't think so. i really do feel that i was-- i was meant to be a dancer and-- and i-- and i knew that. >> stahl: actually, he was meant to be a choreographer. but first he danced for the royal ballet and then the new york city ballet which asked him at the age of 28, to become its first resident choreographer. he won acclaim making pieces that pushed the boundaries of classical dance, like this ♪ "after the rain," performed here to commemorate the attacks of september 11th. ♪

♪ >> wheeldon: i was thinking shape, structure, sculpture. and then what came out of it was something very emotional. people see different things. some people see loss, some people see love, some people see death. ♪

♪nu >> stahl: you have said that's your favorite. tell us why. >> wheeldon: people love it. you know, i'm not going to lie: it's a n-- it's a good feeling when people love your work and they tell you, and they're-- and they're moved by it. >> stahl: moving people has made christopher wheeldon an international superstar. every major ballet company is after him. we followed him to amsterdam where he was creating a brand new piece for the dutch national ballet. >> wheeldon: this room is a blank canvas, and you come in here with the bodies and with the beginnings of a new score, and you have no idea whether it's going to flower or sort of wither away. and-- >> stahl: that sounds terrifying. wheeldon: it is. but it's exhilarating. >> can we make this first thing there? it's like you want to go cross. >> stahl: where do you start?

>> wheeldon: it begins with the music. and then it's about making that first brushstroke. >> ready? because it really is like painting. it's like painting music. nice, that was lovely. ♪ ♪ >> stahl: when you're choreographing, because we've now seen you do it a couple of times, you close your eyes you kind of go away. and when you're away, your hands are moving ( laughs ) 9as if we're actually watching that creativity happen. we're seeing you do it. >> wheeldon: it's a way of trying to picture the music. the shape of a musical phrase, whether it's something that's a spiral, or circular, or angular. what if we go tee-pum together.

so it's like you go tee-da-da. so just an "oh" moment to it. >> anna tsygankova: it's magic to be with him in his studio, to witness how he makes this idea seated in his mind and his heart. he makes it visible for the rest of us. >> yeah, so you should extend it when you get there. >> stahl: wheeldon is making his magic with jozef varga and anna tsygankova, a russian-born star of the dutch ballet. he calls her one of his muses. when you're choreographing for a ballerina, you almost take on-- you become her in a funny way. >> wheeldon: you know, everything has to pass through me. so much of communicating what it is that you want to a dancer is about showing. so yeah, so i do. i have to. i have to play the men, i have to play the women. >> stahl: so you're an actor? >> wheeldon: nobody actually pays to see me up on stage, but i do get to perform. ( laughter ) just arms out. and just walk with her, can you walk with her jozef? >> stahl: you are pushing the dancers to do athletic things

that go across the boundary almost. >> wheeldon: dancers love to be challenged. and we come up with crazy ideas sometimes just to see how far we-- we can push. and i will push until i'm sure that it's not possible. ♪ >> stahl: once in performance, it looks fluid and effortless. wheeldon's reputation has been built on intimate duets like this with difficult but beautiful lifts and partnering. for wheeldon, it's non-stop. between may and september, he worked in seven different countries. in toronto, he rehearsed his 2.5 hour imagining of shakespeare's "the winter's tale" for the national ballet of canada. >> ready and... >> stahl: this is one of his story ballets with characters

and a plot that are big box office. it has lots of moving parts, 52 dancers including children, and wheeldon is the ring master. >> wheeldon: there are so many aspects that are kind of, you know, bearing down on you. the dancers are looking to you. there's a lot of expectation. they want a fabulous role so that they can be celebrated. the director of the company wants you to make a hit ballet. so there's a lot of responsibility that goes with the job. they're not turning together. one four. >> stahl: and a lot of pressure. which got to him early in his career as a choreographer when he was working in london. >> wheeldon: i had been working on a lot of ballets back-to- back. and i started work on a new piece. and i just felt i couldn't do it. there was nothing. it was kind of like suddenly switching all the lights off. so rather than facing it head- on, i actually kind of turned and ran. >> stahl: you ran?

>> wheeldon: i got on the plane and i flew back to new york. it was a really, really tough moment. >> stahl: what do-- what do you think you learned? >> wheeldon: that it can't always be output, output output. you have to take in. and take a step back. >> stahl: with the exception of a rough time running a ballet company he co-founded then left, he's been on a creative up ever since. happily married for two-and-a- half years, christopher wheeldon's become an ambassador for ballet. bringing it into the mainstream, this time with stephen colbert showing him some moves from "an american in paris." >> wheeldon: step fum and now the other side. step fum and then four walks and six and step, drop, step drop, and walking two and three, nailed it. nailed it. ♪

>> stahl: you once said that you wanted to show that ballet need not be, quote, "a big, puffy pink, glittery nightmare." this is your ambition, to change that, that image? >> wheeldon: you know, it is possible for ballet to be young, sexy, dynamic, exciting. to tell complex stories, not just stories about sleeping princesses. but to take audiences on breathtaking journeys. ♪

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>> sharyn alfonsi: when the 2016 masters tournament begins this week, much of the attention at augusta national will be on the "young guns" of golf: rory mcilroy, jason day, rickie fowler, and defending masters champion jordan spieth. they're all in their twenties, and they've taken the pga tour by storm in the last couple of years, especially spieth, who's just 22. but those "kids" had better keep an eye on 37-year old bubba watson. he's left-handed, self-taught, and has won more green jackets than any of the young guns: two of the last four. gerry "bubba" watson is one of the most gifted and creative shot-makers on the tour, but he's also one of the most complicated and polarizing personalities in golf.

>> bubba watson: easy game boys, easy game. >> alfonsi: bubba watson makes it look easy. at estancia, a private club in scottsdale, arizona, he's playing a round with his wife angie. >> watson: that's my partner! get up! go! >> alfonsi: his longtime tour caddy ted scott, and his childhood friend now his accountant randall wells. a relaxed foursome, with a trio of "60 minutes" camera crews tagging along. >> watson: i love it. you gonna go right there? i love it. don't worry though. if it hits you, you won't even know it. 190 miles an hour, you won't even feel it. >> alfonsi: this is "bubba golf." a dash of juvenile, a dash of genius, and a full cup of cocky. >> watson: oh! that's a par. stay one up. >> alfonsi: are they allowed to beat you? >> watson: oh, they're allowed. they just can't. >> ted scott: in ten years of playing, you know, golf with him

and caddying for him, really he's only hit the ball bad a few times. so i don't really know where that comes from, but he's just-- he's a physical genius, you know, when it comes to his ability. >> alfonsi: watson doesn't like the driving range, and hates talking about technique. he just plays. he's one of the longest hitters on tour; his drives with that playful pink club average 315 yards, and he hardly ever hits the ball straight. everything's a hook or a slice a fade or a draw. >> alfonsi: what have you seen him do? >> rickie fowler: pretty much everything possible on a golf course or that you thought might be impossible. >> alfonsi: fellow pro rickie fowler is also a close friend. >> fowler: it's pretty amazing what he can do. he is a freak. >> alfonsi: the best example of that freakish talent came in one of the most famous shots in masters history, on the second hole of a playoff in 2012.

watson's drive landed in the pine straw. >> watson: when i hit it in the woods, i was devastated. my shoulders went down. i was done. then i get over there. when i walk down there, i see the crowd has made a path so i could pull this shot off, big hook. >> jim nantz: did it hook? oh, what a shot! >> alfonsi: how hard of a shot was that? >> scott: it really is not that hard a shot for bubba. >> alfonsi: come on. >> scott: no, no, listen to me listen-- hear me out. for bubba to hook a golf ball 40 yards or whatever it is, that's not that hard for him to do. i mean, he does that for fun. if we would have been just playing golf for fun, i would have just said, "good shot," because i've seen him do that shot before. >> alfonsi: that shot in 2012 produced a two-putt par and his first masters victory. angie had to watch from home with infant son caleb, who they'd adopted just two weeks earlier.

they were both there to see watson win his second green jacket two years later. they've since adopted a daughter, dakota. he's won four tournaments in the last two years. and he's climbed to number four in the world. >> alfonsi: and the legend is you never took a golf lesson? >> watson: still haven't. >> alfonsi: is that true? >> watson: yep. the physical game is easy. that sounds bad. but it's easy to me. i can do that. i can hit it far. i can curve it. i got the shots. it's just mentally being at that moment, right then. >> alfonsi: and how hard is it to control the mental stuff for you? >> watson: it's getting better. again, it's a process. it's a learning process. i'm getting better at it. >> alfonsi: but it doesn't always look that way. a few petulant outbursts have alienated a lot of people. >> watson: there's just no reason for me to show up.

>> alfonsi: in hartford in 2013, microphones picked him up criticizing ted scott for the nine iron he'd recommended. >> watson: water. it's in the water. because of that club. >> alfonsi: all of a sudden everybody went, "oh, my gosh bubba watson's a jerk." >> watson: well, so-- with-- with me, i got to get my anger out. don't let it linger. just get it out. and teddy knows. teddy will-- he always jokes "ten seconds. give bubba ten seconds, he's good." >> alfonsi: ten seconds for bubba, but it's left a lasting impression with some fans. >> scott: my wish is that people wouldn't just be quick to judge over that moment in hartford. and i'll say this on tv, about-- i'd say probably 80% of the guys bash their caddies verbally on the tour. >> alfonsi: 80%? >> scott: guys that would be labeled the nicest guy on tour bashing his caddy. why is that? because it's pressure.onally. if you're thin skinned, you-- you don't need to caddy, because trust me, you're going to get it. you know, it's just part of the job. >> alfonsi: perhaps, but when pga players were asked last year

which of their fellow golfers they'd be least likely to help in a fistfight, watson finished first. >> watson: first time i heard this question or this poll came out was nobody wants to help bubba in a fight. and i say, "well, everybody thinks i'm tough. i like it." and my caddy, teddy said, "no, that's not what they mean." >> alfonsi: you missed it, bud. >> watson: i said-- ( laughs ) but that's what i'm going with. and he said-- he said, "people don't like you." and he said the reason what teddy told me is the reason why they don't like you, or they just don't understand you. because you're nuts. >> alfonsi: were you surprised to hear that people didn't like you. >> watson: nah. >> alfonsi: bubba watson insists he's not trying to rub people the wrong way. it's just tough for him to be in his own skin sometimes. >> watson: i have a lot of mental issues that i-- i just am so fearful of things, which i shouldn't be, right? scared of heights. scared of buildings falling on me. scared of the dark. scared of crowds. those are my biggest issues. >> alfonsi: how do you reconcile that when you have to go out there and play golf with hundreds of people all around you?

>> watson: you know, in between holes is really scary to me because there's so many people that close to you. >> alfonsi: scary? >> watson: yes. >> alfonsi: what are you scared of? >> watson: i'm just scared of people. it's just in general. >> scott: he's scared of everything, everything. >> alfonsi: ted scott learned of bubba's fears the first time they worked together, ten years ago. >> scott: there was a ten-year- old kid who-- who asked for his autograph and we were out in the middle of nowhere and, you know, nobody really knew who bubba was at the time. he was-- he was a rookie on tour. and this kid walked up to him and he just kind of ignored him like he didn't see him, and i thought, "man, what a jerk." but then, as i got to know him i realized even that young kid coming up to him as someone bubba doesn't know is a fearful situation for him. and it sounds crazy, but it's crazy because it's not our fear. >> alfonsi: he's legitimately fearful of people he doesn't know? >> scott: very fearful of that absolutely. >> alfonsi: that kind of fear would be enough to deal with but watson's nerve endings also seem to be closer to the surface than in most people. >> watson: there's your boy over there. do you see him? you see him. >> scott: i see him. >> scott: bubba notices everything. he'll be looking at me and say "look over your right shoulder

there's a guy with a red shirt and a blue cap and he's got his phone underneath that thing." and i'm like-- i mean, there's 3,000 people, i-- i can't even find them. he's like, "no, right there, man." >> alfonsi: he did it with us, during a break in our interview. >> watson: when we're doing this interview do you hear them like clicking a pen, and tapping? >> alfonsi: no, do you? >> watson: i hear them all the time. i'm like, can they hear that on the microphone? and this thing over here keeps flickering. you hear that? >> alfonsi: no. >> watson: gosh! >> scott: whew, man, he is a mess. >> alfonsi:( laughs ) a mess? >> scott: yeah, he's a mess, but he's a fun mess, you know? i think bubba is-- is an extremely emotional person, but 95% of the time that's happiness. >> alfonsi: bubba watson's emotions are most closely connected to one person. tell me about your dad. >> watson: umm ( cries ) >> alfonsi: gerry watson was an army combat veteran, a green beret in vietnam. he died in 2010. >> watson: my dad was a hard

worker, very dedicated to his family. um, very smart. didn't like to-- didn't like to be told what to do. kind of where i get my stuff from. one of the things that i've learned from my dad is, good or bad, is not to trust. >> alfonsi: you mentioned that he would sit with his back always-- he always wanted to be in the corner looking out. and-- and you're kind of the same way? >> watson: i-- i-- yeah, i've learned it from him. he didn't want people behind him. because he wanted to always watch. he wanted to see what people were doing, just because of-- i'm guessing because of-- the stuff he's been through in his life. >> alfonsi: did he ever talk about that stuff? >> watson: no, he didn't talk about it. >> alfonsi: bubba watson won his first pga tournament in june 2010. his dad died four months later. >> watson: first time i hugged my dad was when i got home that night from the red-eye when he said he had cancer. >> alfonsi: the first time in your life? >> watson: first time. but it wasn't because my dad didn't love me. it wasn't because-- it's just my upbringing, right?

>> alfonsi: his upbringing was more country than country club raised in the tiny panhandle town of bagdad, florida, just outside pensacola. >> watson: so this is tanglewood. >> alfonsi: tanglewood golf club is a public course a few miles from bagdad, and the first place bubba watson ever played. hiram cook has run it off and on for more than 30 years. >> watson: when my dad came in i was six years old, he said "hey, do you know anybody that's-- do you have left handed clubs?" so he said, "i'm the head pro and i'm-- i'm left handed." and so he gave me a nine iron, or gave my dad the nine iron and my dad cut it down and put the grip on it. >> hiram cook: bubba was a permanent resident after-- after that. >> alfonsi: tanglewood is also where he learned to "bend it like bubba," around all those pine trees. he was a junior golf champion, then played at the university of georgia, where he also met his wife angie. golf has taken bubba watson all over the world. now he's bringing his family home. he's renovating a house in

pensacola, bought a stake in the local minor league baseball team, and is planning to open "bubba's sweet shop" downtown. >> alfonsi: so you're really gonna open a candy shop? >> watson: yeah. >> alfonsi: are you an eight year old boy because this is what i'm starting to get-- >> watson: if you think about it_ >> alfonsi: you've got a baseball team and a candy shop. >> watson: my wife's not lettin' me buy cars anymore, so i've got to change it up. >> alfonsi: watson's childlike nature is confirmed online. his 1.5 million twitter followers are regularly treated to goofy photos, and this youtube video of him using a hovercraft as a golf cart has nearly ten million views. >> watson: it takes you everywhere you want to go. through sand traps, through waters, shortcuts. >> alfonsi: in this music video, watson put on a "hillbilly meets sasquatch" look and joined three other pros including rickie fowler to raise money for charity. >> watson: ♪ let the bogeys go! i say hey! oh la la la la. >> rickie fowler: i mean, he's like a 12-year-old kid stuck in an older person's body now. and caleb's catching up to him. it's gonna be a tough-- it's

gonna be a close one here soon-- >> alfonsi: at age four? >> fowler: yeah. >> angie watson: when his fun meter gets low-- >> alfonsi: his fun meter? >> angie watson: his fun meter. i like to call it his fun-- he just always likes to be having fun. so i would say yes, he's definitely-- he's definitely a big kid. >> alfonsi: that childlike mind allows him to tap into his imagination, creating shots others can't see, let alone pull off. will he win another masters? >> scott: it's likely. he doesn't like expectations, so don't tell him i said that, but he just sets up so well for everything he loves, you know? and an artist wants to see eye- popping, he wants to see differences. and when you go to augusta, i mean, the grass is so green. then you go to the brown pine straw, and then you got the azaleas and the dog woods and then the sand is so white. and there's slopes and there's mounds and you got all this stuff going on, so all that alone is just bringing out the kid in bubba, you know, he just gets there and it's like, "oh, yeah," everything he likes okay? >> alfonsi: you said an artist loves color. you think he's an artist? >> scott: yes. oh, he's an artist for sure. i'm just carrying the brushes.

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