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Everyone is hitting the ball further and doesn't Tiger Woods knows it

Everyone is hitting the ball further and doesn't Tiger Woods knows it

13 March 2019

The 43 year old is readying himself for another crack at the Players Championship, the unofficial fifth major which he has won twice.

The current driving average on the PGA tour this season is 291 yards.

Woods says his swing speed is slower than what it used to be.

Tiger Woods says when he first arrived on the PGA tour, if you could carry the ball 280 yards, you were considered a big hitter, but now the guys are hitting 320 yards.

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