Tiger Woods To Hit "Four Or Five" Drivers A Day At Honda Classic

Tiger Woods To Hit "Four Or Five" Drivers
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The 14-time major winner will surely hit more fairways this week at PGA National, revealing he's only going to hit "four or five" drivers per round

Tiger Woods To Hit "Four Or Five" Drivers A Day At Honda Classic

Tiger Woods has played six competitive rounds on the PGA Tour in 2018 and, not for the first time, his driving has been rather erratic.

From 84 possible fairways on Tour this year, Woods has hit just 30 - a driving accuracy of just 35.7%.

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If Woods had played enough events, that 35.7% stat would rank him 213th...out of 214 players.

Leading the Tour in driving accuracy is Ken Duke with 77% of fairways hit. Phil Mickelson is down at 206th with just under 49% fairways hit.

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But there is hope for the 14-time major winner to improve that statistic this week at the Honda Classic.

Woods found himself in the rough a lot last week at the Genesis Open.
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Woods has said he will only hit "four or five" drivers per round at PGA National, meaning he can surely start finding the short stuff more often.

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The course this week at PGA National is 7,110 yards so not ridiculously long, Woods could have some success if he gets his 3 wood going well off the tee.

He played in the Honda Classic for the first time in 2012 and shot a closing 62 to finish as runner-up to Rory McIlroy, who won the tournament to reach the world number one spot.

Tiger Woods' 2018 stats so far...

Driving distance: 297.9 yards Driving accuracy: 35.7% Greens in regulation: 53.7% Scoring average: 71.4 Sand save percentage: 40% Strokes gained putting: +2.77

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Elliott Heath
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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