Dustin Johnson hits his second shot on Friday on the ninth gap at Innisbrook.
Golf Channel
Dustin Johnson didn’t see the forest by a tree. He noticed the inexperienced.
In one of many extra harmful pictures you’ll see, and likewise one of many extra deft, Johnson put to check the outdated golf concept that swears that timber are made from air. On the par-4 ninth at Innisbrook, throughout Friday’s second spherical of the Valspar Championship, DJ was not denied by a considerably shorter tree a couple of yard in entrance of his ball, swinging into it and sending his second shot simply over the inexperienced 114 yards away.
“That’s a harmful shot,” analyst David Feherty mentioned on the Golf Channel broadcast. “The membership can break; it might probably go anyplace; damage your wrists or your forearms.”
It appeared each iron and Johnson have been good. After impression, which stopped his follow-through nearly instantly, Johnson jolted momentarily, took three steps again and adopted his ball. The 2-time main champion then began strolling towards it, and he ultimately chipped on and two-putted for a bogey 5.
“Once I walked up, I used to be like, oh, god, this may very well be a damaged shaft simply because — DJ’s not the kind of participant that’s going to again off from a shot like that,” on-course analyst Notah Begay mentioned on the printed. “I knew he was going to get in there and see if there was just a little window for him to assault the flag, however the shaft was going to be in jeopardy. However I’m unsure it stayed intact. We’ll see.”
“Nicely, he hit it laborious. He went proper after it,” Feherty mentioned. “Yeah, he acquired a number of energy out of it. Modified end and it simply snapped again off of that tree trunk.”
However why hit such a shot, announcer Dan Hicks requested. Analyst Gary Koch was reminded of an analogous effort by Tiger Woods, on the eleventh gap in the course of the ultimate spherical of the 2007 Masters.
In that occasion, Woods’ iron snapped.
“Went forward and did it and the membership broke on him,” Koch mentioned on the printed.
“One factor is, as , these guys don’t have any back-off in them,” Begay mentioned. “Discuss to Tiger, Dustin, speaking about gamers which have held the No. 1 world rating for some time, they obtain these heights for a cause — they’re simply not ever going to again off. If they will save a shot by taking an opportunity, even at occasions placing your physique in jeopardy, they’re actually going to do it.”
“Trick shot stuff,” Feherty mentioned.
