Where Does Bubba Watson Live in Florida? Inside His Pensacola Home

Where does Bubba Watson live? The two-time Masters champion lives in Pensacola, Florida, in a waterfront home on the bay. He moved back to the area in 2016 with his wife Angie and their two children, after several years in Orlando. Pensacola is his home turf: he grew up in Bagdad, a small town about 20 miles away. Here is what public reporting says about the house, the move, the Tiger Woods home he sold, and the businesses he has built since.

Key takeaways

• Watson lives in a waterfront home in Pensacola, Escambia County, on the Florida Panhandle. The family moved there in 2016.
• The price was not reported. His own interviews say only that the house is on the water and that the family takes the boat out often.
• Before Pensacola he owned Tiger Woods' former home in Isleworth, in Windermere near Orlando. He sold it in 2016 for a reported $4.2 million.
• Pensacola sits about 600 miles from Palm Beach County. The closest South Florida match for a golfer's waterfront home with a dock is Admirals Cove in Jupiter.

Where does Bubba Watson live in Florida?

Watson lives in Pensacola, the westernmost city in Florida and the seat of Escambia County. The city sits on Pensacola Bay, a short bridge ride from Gulf Breeze and the white sand of Santa Rosa Island. Pensacola is on the Panhandle, roughly 600 miles from the counties Pure Equity serves. We cover it because the search interest is real.

In a profile for Garden and Gun, Watson said the family moved to Pensacola in 2016 and got a house on the water. He told the magazine they love taking the boat out. That is as specific as the public record gets, and Pure Equity does not publish private addresses in any case.

His roots here run deep. He grew up in Bagdad, near Milton in Santa Rosa County, and played high school golf in Milton before college at Faulkner State and the University of Georgia. He told Garden and Gun he rode his bike to school and then to the post office every day to get the mail. His late father Gerry was an Army Green Beret, and the area's military presence, anchored by Naval Air Station Pensacola, is part of why the Watsons feel at home.

Pensacola itself is a Navy town with an old downtown that has come back to life over the past 15 years. Palafox Street is the main strip, with restaurants, shops and a minor league ballpark on the water at its south end. Watson has a hand in several of those businesses, which we cover below.

Inside the reported waterfront home

Watson has kept the Pensacola house out of the news. No outlet we found has reported a price, a size or a closing date, and no listing photos have circulated. What we know comes from his own interviews: it is on the water, there is a boat, and the family spends its time there between tournaments.

That is a sharp contrast with his last home. In Orlando, everything about his house was public knowledge, because it had belonged to Tiger Woods. The Pensacola move looks like a deliberate step away from that kind of attention. Watson has said the goal was the quality of life he knew as a kid, not a trophy address.

Pensacola's waterfront homes sit on the bay, on Bayou Texar, on Bayou Grande and along the sound in Gulf Breeze. Most have docks, and many are older houses that owners have torn down and rebuilt. Local reporting has not placed the Watson home in any one of those areas, so we do not guess.

Why Bubba Watson chose Pensacola

Watson has given the reason more than once. He told Garden and Gun, 'Pensacola raised me, and I want to help it get even better.' The magazine also wrote that he wanted a plan beyond golf. He had talked openly about anxiety during his years on tour, and a home base near family fit that plan.

Then he started buying into the town. In 2016 he opened Bubba's Sweet Spot, a candy and ice cream shop on Palafox Street downtown. His logic, in his own words: 'How do you get foot traffic downtown? My first thought was sugar and ice cream.'

He also became a part owner of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, the city's minor league baseball team, and bought into a car dealership and a golf practice center. Each business ties him to the local economy in a way a second home never could. It also means he is in town a lot, which matters for a player whose schedule once kept him in hotels for most of the year.

Since 2022 he has played on the LIV Golf circuit, where he captains the RangeGoats team. That league plays fewer events than the PGA Tour, so it leaves more weeks at home on the bay.

The Windermere house he sold

Before Pensacola, Watson owned one of the most talked-about houses in golf. In 2013, a year after his first Masters win, he bought Tiger Woods' former home in Isleworth, a gated golf community in Windermere outside Orlando. ESPN reported the purchase at the time. It was the house where Woods' 2009 car crash took place, which made it famous for the wrong reasons.

Golf Digest described the house as nearly 8,000 square feet with seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms, a home theater, a two-story living room and an updated kitchen. Watson listed it for $5.6 million. It sold in 2016 for $4.2 million, according to Golf Digest and CBS Sports, which both cited the Los Angeles Times.

Outlets at the time also reported what Watson paid Woods in 2013, but the figures we saw were secondhand, so we leave the purchase price out. The point stands either way: he sold the Orlando house the same year he moved to Pensacola, and he took well under his asking price to do it.

Where else does Bubba Watson live?

Watson also owned a home at The Greenbrier, the West Virginia resort whose PGA Tour event he won in 2018. The Logan Banner reported in 2020 that James Justice III, son of the state's governor, bought that house for $2.5 million. So that property is gone as well.

That leaves Pensacola as his only reported home. He spends tournament weeks on the road with LIV Golf, whose events run from Saudi Arabia to Australia to the United States. But between them he comes back to the bay. No outlet has reported a second home for the Watsons since the Greenbrier sale.

What homes near Bubba Watson cost

Pensacola is outside our MLS coverage, so we do not have live numbers for the city and we will not quote figures we cannot verify. Our data-driven Escambia County page shows what our feed does carry for the area.

For a South Florida reader, the closest equivalent to a golfer's waterfront home with a boat out back is Admirals Cove in Jupiter. The community has a marina, golf and deep-water docks, and it sits a few miles from the Bear's Club, where Michael Jordan built his own course. Several tour players have called it home over the years.

Jupiter has about 730 active listings with a median list price near $875,000 and an average of about 116 days on market, per our MLS feed as of September 2026. Waterfront homes in Admirals Cove sit well above that median. Across Palm Beach County, you can compare waterfront homes and golf and country club communities side by side.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Bubba Watson live now?

He lives in Pensacola, Florida, in a waterfront home the family moved to in 2016. During tournament weeks he travels with LIV Golf, then returns to Pensacola between events.

Where in Pensacola does Bubba Watson live?

Public reporting says only that the house is on the water. It does not name the neighborhood, and we do not publish private addresses. Pensacola's waterfront runs along the bay, Bayou Texar and Bayou Grande, plus the sound side of Gulf Breeze.

Where does Bubba Watson live full time?

Pensacola is his primary and only reported home. He sold the Windermere house in 2016 and the Greenbrier house in 2020, so there is no reported second residence.

How much did Bubba Watson pay for the Pensacola home?

The price was not reported. No listing or sale record has surfaced in the golf or real estate press. By contrast, his Windermere sale at $4.2 million and his Greenbrier sale at $2.5 million both made the news.

Is Pensacola part of South Florida?

No. Pensacola is on the Panhandle, in the far northwest corner of the state near the Alabama line, and it runs on Central time. It is about 600 miles by road from Palm Beach County. Pure Equity serves eight counties on the southeast coast and does not list homes there.

Does Bubba Watson still own Tiger Woods' old house?

No. He sold the Isleworth home in 2016 for $4.2 million after listing it at $5.6 million, per Golf Digest. A later owner, not Watson, holds it today.

If you own a waterfront or golf-community home in Jupiter or anywhere in Palm Beach County and want a current number, get a free home valuation from Pure Equity. Buyers can see Jupiter listings or browse luxury homes across South Florida. For more golfers' homes, read where Tiger Woods lives on Jupiter Island and where Michael Jordan lives in Jupiter.

Sources

• Garden and Gun, My Town: Bubba Watson's Pensacola, Florida
• Golf Digest, Bubba Watson sells home once owned by Tiger Woods for $4.2 million
• CBS Sports, Bubba Watson sells Tiger Woods' old house for $4.2M
• ESPN, Bubba Watson buys home from Tiger
• Logan Banner, Gov. Justice's son bought golf star Watson's home for $2.5M

Based on publicly reported information; details may change and are not independently verified by Pure Equity. We do not publish private addresses.