Tiger: 370, Ho Hum
Friday, May 6, 2005 at 10:16 AM Tiger Woods stood on the 16th tee Wednesday, where flaws in his swing were exposed last year during the Wachovia Championship, and ripped a driver that showed how much his game has turned around. For starters, it was relatively straight and landed in the fairway.
“I don’t know how far I hit it,” Woods said after his pro-am round at Quail Hollow. “I don’t know long the hole is, but I had 118 yards to the hole.”
Told the par 4 measured 486 yards, Woods didn’t bother doing the math.
“There you go,” he said. “I hit it good.”
And after the Wachovia first round :
Q. You hit a 3-wood 321 at one point. Why are you hitting the ball so long?
TIGER WOODS: I guess I'm in decent shape, and I'm hitting the ball solid for once, that helps. You know, these fairways are a little like landing on trampolines. You get the ball lying on the correct knob, you can run this ball out there a long way. A couple times if you land the ball on the downslope you're going to get 60 yards of roll, but if you don't, you're stuck way back there. That's the advantage of having a little bit of length. You can land the ball on the downslopes and run the ball out there.
Q. (Inaudible).
TIGER WOODS: Well, it's fair. It's a golf course that is fair and then on top of that it's one of those old, traditional golf courses. We don't get a chance to play these type of golf courses anymore. We keep going to stadium courses every week. It's nice to play an old, traditional golf course where it looks like they just put a golf course on top of the land. They didn't bulldoze and a whole bunch of different things to create a golf course, like this was meant to be here.
Q. (Inaudible).
TIGER WOODS: You'd have to lengthen this golf course a lot. It's too short for a U.S. Open. We're going out there and playing right now, even with firm and fast, as I'm sure U.S. Open time will be firm and fast, hitting driver and wedges too many times. The USGA wouldn't accept that. They want us hitting 5-irons and 4-irons into greens, so they would have to lengthen this place.