Sentences with phrase «of tee shots»

Though she sprays a lot of tee shots (she's ranked 48th on the tour in fairways hit), she recovers nicely with help from her irons (third in greens hit) and her putter (first in birdies).

Not exact matches

When McDermott skanked his opening tee shot all of 20 yards, Barkley couldn't help himself.

A wayward tee shot into the bunker on the par - 3 seventh just after easily could've sent him down a familiar path, but saves and scrambles like this were the story of Sunday (and of the week) for Fowler.

By the time the sellout gallery of 40,000 (the gates were locked before Palmer teed off) had finally wandered off at the end of the day and left the Augusta National's green acres looking like a dump heap, Palmer stood 10 strokes under par for the tournament — five better than Bruce Devlin, a young Australian who observed, «The way Arnold is playing, I guess the rest of us are just shooting for second place.»

He hit his tee shot on that hole into a miniature forest of pine needles, and he needed a recovery on his second shot.

At the par - 3 16th, Palmer hit his five - iron tee shot to within six feet of the pin and sank the putt for a birdie.

He arrived at the Honolulu airport onThursday at 3:30 a.m., was on the tee four hours later, went out and shot 69 inthe first Tour round of his life, then screwed up the story by missing the cut.As travel stories go, it will soon get topped.

For now, the best course near the historic town of San Jose del Cabo is worth the effort, if only to play Norman's staggering drop - shot, par - 3 sixth, its green 100 feet below the tee, with panoramas of 10 miles of beach.

Upon reaching the Bear Trap in Sunday's finale of the Honda Classic, Lowry watched as playing competitor Smylie Kaufman splashed his tee shot into the ball - sucking water fronting the par - 3 15th.

I had no particular interest in the game, and it was only out of boredom that I would idly take some air swings off to the side of the tee box as the lads waited for the group ahead to get out of range of the good shot that would never come from any of them.

Adam Sarson uncovered this moment of frustration from someone on the third tee, and after some late night sleuthing, deduced that it was Compton who got so disgusted with his tee shot that he decided to toss his club and punt the air.

Big John even hit a tee shot off a beer can, which is the Tour equivalent of using the guest towels to wash the car.

There will also be a stream dedicated to the first tee, allowing viewers to watch all of the players» opening tee shots, both in the morning and afternoon sessions.

A Tiger twirl of his club after a perfect tee shot on the final hole let everyone know the game was over.

2ND AT THE MASTERS: «A hooked tee shot on the second day put me deep in the woods, my worst trouble of the whole tournament.I had to turn to miss a tree on my backswing.

Via The YouTube description: In the second round of the 2014 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, Jimmy Walker's tee shot glances...

J.B. Holmes is scorching the Golf Club of Houston, and thanks to holes like the par - 3 seventh, where his tee shot clanged off the flagstick, is on a serious 59 watch after making the turn at 7 - under 29.

Once Moody ejected an interloper hitting to the second tee — he turned out to have a list of people he planned to shoot.

Kuchar had a one - stroke lead on Na coming to the signature 17th hole, but he struck his tee shot a bit fat and ended up splashing about five yards short of the island.

«The swing of the day» was «the longest tee shot hit today,» Chamblee said of the drive that found the left fairway — one of eight fairways Woods hit.

Ben Crane is another player who's making a run at the leaderboard with a 6 - under through 14 holes, just five shots back of Matteson, who's yet to tee off.

McIlroy and Westwood are just getting to the first tee, starting 3 - under and six shots back of Jim Furyk.

The par - 3 island 17th doesn't require much explanation, and the par - 4 18th might be the toughest tee shot of the season.

Just as he had been the week before, at the Wachovia Championship, he was done in by his tee shots, hitting a mere 23 of 56 fairways — and only three on Sunday — but he closed 70 - 69 to finish at nine under par, one behind Damron, Garcia and Hart.

He played 58 holes at least year's Players before he made a bogey, which is astounding given the penal nature of mishit tee shots and water trouble on almost every hole.

Via The YouTube description: In the second round of the 2014 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, Jimmy Walker's tee shot glances a bird mid flight and lands in the rough on the par - 4 17th hole.

UPDATE: After all that, just before Rose teed off on Sunday, the PGA Tour rescinded the two - shot penalty to put Rose back to 7 - under at the start of his final round.

Dallas Stars center Tyler Seguin was playing in The Fourth Period's Charity Golf Classic on Thursday and he let some guy hit a tee shot off of his junk.

Standing on the No. 6 tee box at TPC Sawgrass, Tiger held a one - shot lead at 13 - under par before carding his first bogey of the day a few moments later.

All too often, works of sports fiction amount to hyperbolic accounts of rambunctious Texas football teams or overwrought odes to batted balls and tee shots.

His tee shot at the 11th sailed right of the green and settled in a difficult sidehill lie.

Rose, the only member of the fivesome who is playing from the championship tees, must hit his second shot over the heads of some two dozen members of Jordan's gallery, which has smartly stationed itself across the fairway to be in position to intercept Michael on his way to the green.

Woods» tee shot at the 215 - yard 17th hole on Thursday nearly hit the pin, and what made the shot more memorable was the little twirl of the club by Woods immediately after the shot.

There's one great «shot» at The First Tee of Silicon Valley that I cherish, and that we are replicating because of the generosity of donors.

He put his tee shot on the par - 4 first hole into the fairway after winding up way left of there yesterday.

A topped tee shot that luckily carried the ladies» tee to settle on the fairway eliminated very little of the hole's yardage.

I missed every tee shot left and I did not putt well, didn't feel very good on the greens and consequently never made a run,» Woods told reporters following an eight - bogey day on which his entire game was out of sync.

In his first tournament as a pro, in a mini-tour event in Palm Springs, Calif., Stankowski hit his opening tee shot out - of - bounds.

Only seconds earlier the usually steady Nelson, who had gone to nine under with a birdie at 11, came off an iron shot on the 12th tee that splashed into the infamous Rae's Creek, far short of the green.

All three of these holes play over-par and no matter how much pressure you're feeling to make a move, just coming through it clean with no dropped shots and getting to the 13th tee, an enormous birdie chance, is paramount.

Fowler struggled to take advantage and shoot ahead, losing balls left off the tee, missing a couple birdie opportunities up on the greens, and stalling out with the rest of the pack.

His prodigious blast may have surprised onlookers like Norman, but not the author of the mammoth tee shot.

«So if I can hit the ball well off the tee shot like I did in»07 when I won, I feel like the other parts of my game are there.»

Woods, who may or may not have hit some tee shots past those of Dustin Johnson during their casual Friday round with Brad Faxon and President Donald Trump, can certainly still bring it, at least in non-competitive settings, as driving the green on the par - 4 seventh hole at Albany and draining a 15 - foot putt for eagle during Wednesday's World Challenge pro-am proved.

Given how herunderstanding of the mind outdistanced her tee shots, Isleib soon concludedthat she had something useful to offer other women golfers.

Tiger Woods was leading the field by two shots and had command of The Players Championship Sunday afternoon when he reached the 14th tee at TPC Sawgrass.

On the 18th hole of his practice round today, Woods hit an errant tee shot that struck a fan in the head.

On Sunday his tee shot plugged in the sand, and the ensuing bogey dropped him out of a three - way tie for the lead.

It was a perfect tee - to - green play and indicative of the kind of iron shots from Woods all day.

Laskin was part of the local First Tee contingent at Pebble Beach and was selected to be one of six junior golfers to be paired with a senior teammate for a five - hole alternate - shot skins game.