Arnold Palmer says even though he won't hit ceremonial
tee shot at the Masters, he'll be there to watch Nicklaus and Player «sweat it out.»
Tiger Woods watches
his tee shot at Innisbrook's Copperhead course during the pro-am at the Valspar Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, March 7, 2018, in Palm Harbor, Fla (Jim Damaske / Tampa Bay Times via AP)
180 ball speed for Woods on
his tee shot at 3.
The tee shot at No. 12 can be the most intimidating in golf, especially on Sunday.
The 467 - yard14th played downwind all week, so nobody complained, and the added length madethe
tee shot at the 447 - yard 18th straighter and therefore easier.
11:49 a.m.: Tiger Woods liked
his tee shot at first on the long par - 3 fourth hole, but it ended up short and in a greenside bunker.
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.
His tee shot at the 11th sailed right of the green and settled in a difficult sidehill lie.
So it was particularly cool to see the PGA Tour and Golf Channel mash up every single
tee shot at the par - 3 17th from Thursday's first round at The Players.
Payne Stewart and Phil Mickelson both hit outstanding
tee shots at No. 17 in 1999.
Arnold Palmer, for the first time since 2007, will not be among golf's original Big Three as they hit the ceremonial opening
tee shots at the Masters next month, according to Golf Channel's Tim Rosaforte.
Not exact matches
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.»
And even when she was
at her best, her
tee shots left her yards behind her competitors.
«When I started thinking about it was
at the 12th hole, when I hit a
tee shot that I thought was pretty good.
On the watery 12th hole, where he stood even par after a loosely played first nine and a good birdie
at the 11th, he shanked his
tee 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.
Rickie showed up there with a two -
shot lead and proceeded to stuff his
tee shoot to about 10 feet and all but lock it up
at TPC Scottsdale.
Woods made the turn
at 1 - under 35 and took his erratic swing with him, as his
tee shot went — yep — left again and traveled some 170 yards.
After bogeying the 13th hole to go one over par for the tournament, White hit an approach into the rough
at the par - 4 14th and flew his next
shot over the grandstands and nearly onto the 15th
tee.
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...
After hitting his
tee shot on # 16
at the Traveler's Championship into the water, Bubba Watson was not pleased with his caddy.
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.
William McGirt
shot a 69 on Thursday, and on Friday is in the first twosome off the
tee, joining Rod Pampling
at 8 a.m.
Just another ho - hum Saturday
at the Ryder Cup for Sergio Garcia, who hit a
tee shot into a marshal's pocket, took a drop, and then calmly drilled a birdie putt.
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.
With the conditions supposedly toughening up for the afternoon
tee times, I said earlier today that I'd be shocked if Martin Kaymer (12 - under) didn't go to sleep on a mutli -
shot 36 - hole lead
at The Players Championship.
After an errant
tee shot on the 18th hole during the third round
at Pebble Beach, Phil Mickelson was tasked with finding his golf ball.
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.
The live coverage will then start
at 2 p.m. and run until the last
shot is hit, scheduled around 7 p.m.. Here's the
tee sheet for Sunday's final round:
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.
But
teeing off
at 7 - under, Rose promptly went out in 33 to get within two
shots at 10 - under.
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.
In 1956 I was tied for the lead
at the Canadian Open after 36 holes and then
shot an 80 in the third round by hooking 14
tee shots.
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.
After nuke - hooking his second
shot at the 15th over the green and into the pond near the 16th
tee, Stankowski faced a no - win situation on his chip back.
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.
But, boy, you wonder about not only just the
tee shot on 12, but why can't you just control the second
shot, you know, and make 5
at worse, and you're still tied for the lead.
On his first
tee shot, he pull - hooked one into the pine straw
at the 15th.
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.
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.
He lofted his
tee shot up and over the pin, started shouting
at it in Spanish, and then whistled it all the way back down towards the cup.
Adam and I were paired with him
at the Open Championship last year, and from his first
tee shot on, I thought, This kid is special.
The ball barely made it off the
tee and the Bulls didn't even get a
shot at recovering the meaningless onside kick.
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.
Where he goes from here is a
tee time on Saturday after posting a 1 - under 71 on Friday to go with Thursday's 73 heading into the third round
at even - par — two
shots north of the projected cut line and just seven
shots behind Friday's mid-afternoon co-leaders, Louis Oosthuizen and Kyle Stanley.
Blair and his two playing partners, Blayne Barber and Tyrone Van Aswegen, had the dubious distinction of putting all three
tee shots into the water
at 17.