Bubba Has Clubs, Will Travel Around the World

SHANGHAI — Bubba Watson is in China this week, Japan next week, and there's one more stop in Thailand before the year is over.

Golf is more global than ever, and the two-time Masters champion wants to be part of it.

"I wanted to win outside the U.S.," Watson said Wednesday on the eve of his title defense in the HSBC Champions. "And after getting a taste of victory outside the U.S. here last year, I want to do that again. I'm going to try to do it again."

Watson was portrayed as an uncultured American four years ago when he went to France and didn't have the best week, which included comments about historic sites without knowing what they were.

But he's getting the hang of it.

"Getting better as…