Menu
This video focuses on a 3-some of great ball strikers all hitting awful shots on a 225-yard par-3, then utilizing their short games to give them a chance to save par. Fowler leads off by fanning a 5-iron dead right off the top of the grandstand, getting a wonderful break when the ball kicks off the roof into the bunker and onto the upslope of the trap. McIlroy follows with another shot to the right, not as far off line as Fowler, and winds up with a far more difficult position in the bunker. You would figure no way would Scott follow that with another fan job, but his is in between Fowler and McIlroy and winds up in the heavy rough to the right of the bunker, short sided but on the upslope. Scott then hits a wonderful flop shot, McIlroy does the best he can with a downhill, sidehill lie in the bunker, and Fowler almost holes his more straightforward bunker shot. They walk off the hole with 2 pars and a bogey (McIlroy misses his 12-footer), and we understand that a) great players don’t always hit it so well and b) they more often than not get it up and down to keep the round going. Players at this level make a lot of birdies, but what allows them to score is not making bogies.
Join the forum discussion on this post