Sweden's Gabriel Hjertstedt might have hit the Golf Clubs longest drive in PGA Tour history last week during the BellSouth Classic.
During the Mizuno MP 62 Irons third round, Hjertstedt's drive on the tenth hole strayed to the right. After a couple of minutes searching for it, a spectator said he thought the ball landed in Ping Rapture V2 Irons Set the back of a maintenance cart that was collecting trash. "I said, 'Where's the cart?' He said it took off," Hjertstedt recalled while having lunch Monday in the Augusta National clubhouse.
He asked a television crew to track down the cart, which was found about a mile away. Sure enough, his ball was in the back. Hjertstedt took a drop, hit his approach and made par.
Good job he can teach!
Butch Harmon, the Mizuno MP 52 Iron set coach for Tiger Woods the past seven years, finally got a chance to play Augusta National. And it proved why he's a better teacher than a player. "These greens are way too fast for me," said Harmon, who failed to break 80. Claude Harmon, his father, won the Mizuno JPX A25 Irons 1948 Masters by five strokes. The son also played the PGA Tour and was the first winner of the B.C. Open. But that was before it was an official event, in a time where winning didn't guarantee a trip to The Masters.