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Play Your Best Tour Technique
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veryone needs a
tee shot they can rely
on. It’s not necessarily
the longest drive, it’s the one
you’re sure you can put in the
fairway when you can’t afford to
be in the rough. I had one of
those situations last year on the
first hole of a sudden-death
playoff with Minjee Lee at the
LPGA Mediheal Championship.
The 18th at Lake Merced in
San Francisco is a par 5, so the
odds were pretty good I would
need a birdie or I’d lose. I went to
my go-to tee shot, a baby draw,
and split the fairway. Then I hit
my 3-wood to three feet, setting
up an eagle and the win—my
first in almost two years.
Most people focused on that
3-wood, but it was the tee shot
that set the whole thing up.
If you’re looking for a driver
swing you can rely on, let me
show you how I hit this shot.
—with e. michael johnson
lydia ko is a 15-time winner on
the LPGA Tour and the 2015 LPGA
Player of the Year. She spent 85
weeks at No. 1 on the Rolex
Women’s World Golf Rankings.