It was a violent reaction to be sure, but what really caught everyone’s attention is that his golf ball wound up pin-high, about seven feet from the hole according to the DP World Tour’s shot tracker.
This week at the DP World India Championship, McIlroy opted to leave his TaylorMade Qi10 driver behind – a bold move that illustrates that sometimes the smartest decision is to shelve your biggest strength.
Europe would have triumphed at Bethpage with or without “the envelope rule”, having won by a score of 15-13. But that doesn’t make Hovland feel any less bad about the ordeal.