{"id":1426,"date":"2006-07-22T14:50:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T19:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/tigers_driving_accuracy\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T13:30:29","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T17:30:29","slug":"tigers_driving_accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/swing_thoughts\/tigers_driving_accuracy","title":{"rendered":"Tiger&#8217;s Driving Accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Swing Thoughts\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/swing_thoughts\/st_title.gif\" height=\"64\" width=\"125\" \/>While everyone is ranting and raving about equipment, flogging, and other factors in the distance debate, I saw one of Tiger&#8217;s stats tonight on <a href=\"http:\/\/thegolfchannel.com\/\" title=\"The Golf Channel\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Golf Channel<\/a> that I thought was interesting. Here are Tiger&#8217;s best tournaments since 1999 with regards to driving accuracy:<\/p>\n<pre>Year    Tournament        Accuracy     Result\r\n----    ----------        --------     ------\r\n2000    British Open       91.0%        Won\r\n2006    British Open       83.3%*        ?\r\n1999    Funai Classic      85.7%        Won\r\n2000    Bay Hill           83.9%        Won\r\n2005    British Open       83.9%        Won\r\n2001    Memorial           82.1%        Won\r\n2002    Buick Open         82.1%        Won\r\n*Through three rounds<\/pre>\n<p>When Tiger keeps it in the short grass, he&#8217;s doing quite well. I&#8217;m willing to bet that a good portion of the above tournaments he wasn&#8217;t hitting driver much either. Tiger is feasting on Hoylake with his stinger 2-iron off the tee with a plan to stay out of trouble. 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