WATCH: Tiger Woods Misses One Fairway During Pro-Am
Woods is hitting his driver very well in practice for the Hero World Challenge
How is Tiger's swing looking ahead of his return today? Well, he missed just one fairway during yesterday's pro-am...
WATCH: Tiger Woods Misses One Fairway During Pro-Am
Tiger Woods returns today at the Hero World Challenge and golf fans across the globe will be wondering what shape his game is in.
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Well, we don't want to raise expectations too high but the 14-time major winner is having great success off the tee in his preparations.
Woods' distance with the driver has impressed the likes of Rickie Fowler, Brad Faxon and Patrick Reed, and Tiger missed just one fairway yesterday.
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Watch all 18 of his pro-am tee shots here:
Woods was around "3-4 under" for his round according to @GCTigerTracker on Twitter, which included an eagle at the par-4 seventh after he drove the green.
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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!
Elliott is currently playing:
Driver: Titleist TSR4
3 wood: Titleist TSi2
Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1
Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW
Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58
Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5
Ball: Srixon Z Star XV
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