Data from ShotScope studied millions of tee shots from everyday golfers and found the percentage golfers found the fairway using a driver is nearly identical to that with a 3-wood.
They say seeing is believing, but whoever “they” is who said that didn’t “see” Hideki Matsuyama pull off the early contender for 2022’s shot of the year.
That Danny Willett cracked his driver at the end of his opening round Friday morning in the 84th Masters, and then shot a second-round six-under 66 later in the day without it, has to deliver some kind of message, doesn’t it?
With 272 yards to the front of the par-5 18th green on the Jumeirah Estate’s Earth course and another 19 yards to the pin, McIlroy “nutted” a “perfect” 3-wood through the slightly left-to-right headwind.