By:
Ryan Barath
December 23, 2022
Hideki Matsuyama’s 3-wood on the Sony Open.
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The 2022 PGA Tour season was, let’s consider, eventful. From Scottie Scheffler’s sizzling begin and Masters win, to Rory McIlroy’s blazing end to win the FedEx Cup, and regaining the World No. 1 rating, there was so much happening.
Heck, you would write a brief ebook on simply the occasions that occurred on the WM Phoenix Open, simply on one gap alone.
Joel Dahmen and Harry Higgs went shirtless on the WM Phoenix Open.
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Oh, and let’s not overlook that hole-in-one…
However the true high shot of the 12 months— a minimum of for my part, got here in January on the Sony Open when Hideki Matsuyama took a wild swipe along with his 3-wood into the setting solar, in a playoff, and hit it inside two ft.
The shot itself wasn’t overly tough on paper, however a 3-wood off the deck is not at all straightforward, and as each golfer can attest, committing to a shot lifeless into the solar understanding full nicely you’re about to expertise short-term blindness takes guts.
So, even given every thing else that occurred in 2022, that is the shot that I received’t quickly overlook.
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Golf.com Editor
Ryan Barath is GOLF Journal and GOLF.com’s senior editor for tools. He has an intensive club-fitting and -building background with greater than 20 years of expertise working with golfers of all ability ranges, together with PGA Tour gamers. Earlier than becoming a member of the workers, he was the lead content material strategist for Tour Expertise Golf, in Toronto, Canada.