Top Golf Drivers
The original Rules of Golf make three references to the tee:
You must tee your ball within a club’s length of the hole;
Your tee must be on the ground;
You may not change the ball which you strike off the tee.
From this, we know that the word tee was used as both a noun and a verb, and that determining how to start the play of a hole was of great importance to the Rules makers.
Long before these rules were written down, golfers gave themselves a bit of an advantage on the …
The pond that guards the 18th green of the South Course at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California, earned its name during the 1975 Andy Williams San Diego Open.
Aussie Bruce Devlin hit his second shot on the par five to the edge of the pond, and from a partially submerged lie he took six strokes to extricate the ball, winding up with a 10 on the hole that most other players considered a birdie chance.
A plaque on the site commemorates his misadventure.
The upraised Spectacles bunkers lie side by side in …
It was the US Golf Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. Palmer took a seven-shot lead over Billy Casper into the back nine. How could he lose? Palmer was thinking about breaking the US Open scoring record, which Ben Hogan had set in 1948 with 276 at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles. Casper told Palmer, with whom he was playing, that he wanted to finish second. He assumed he couldn’t win.
Palmer bogeyed the 10th hold against Casper’s par. His lead was six shots. It was still …
One way the professionals have it easier than us mere golfing mortals:
You know the feeling; You’ve just ponied up a couple of hundred bucks for the biggest-newest-latest-and-longest club you’ve ever seen. A few rounds after you bought it, your buddy gets an even bigger-newer-later-longer club that promises to put every shot in the fairway and will also balance his checkbook, wash away the gray, protect his car from thieves, and add six years to his life. You know you want it. What do you do?
The pros have no such dilemmas. …
In the professional game, statistics are recorded for both the distance and the accuracy of tee shots. Measuring the average distance of your drives is a very involved process. Concentrate on the accuracy part, which is easier to quantify and more important.
Add up the number of drives you played on par-4s and par-5s, and whether you hit or missed the fairway. Then calculate the percentage of fairways you hit.
For example, if you found 9 out of 14 fairways, that is 64 percent of fairways hit (9 / 14 x 100).
The …
