Sentence examples for is missing the fairway from inspiring English sources

Imagine some regular golfer who is missing the fairway 70 percent of the time.

"I was missing the fairways a little bit, on the second, the third and the fourth holes, and I started getting a bit frustrated," he said.

"Because most players are not just missing the fairway off the tee, they are barely keeping the ball on the planet.

You can also be quite relaxed about missing the fairway as three or four inches of grass isn't going to unduly trouble you.

If a fairway is missed and the punishment is deep rough then players are all brought down to a similar level.

He was in the mix until missing the fairway on the 14th and taking bogey, and he wound up with a 70 to finish in eighth place, four shots behind.

But missing the fairway could be brutal, as Woods and many others discovered.

The first interruption in Woods' round – play was stopped with he, Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott standing on the fifth green – didn't seem that it would do anything but benefit Woods, who had a dangerous combination working: He was missing fairways and struggling direly with Merion's suddenly wet and slowed-down greens.

It's a difficult lay up if the fairway is missed.

On the par-5 No. 11, Woods was forced to lay up on his second shot after missing the fairway with his drive.

But even when he was winning Majors he was missing a lot of fairways; sometimes missing the hazards, too, bombing spectators in the gallery; and occasionally overshooting even them.