Tiger Woods was asked to purposely mishit the ball. Hilarity ensues

On paper, TaylorMade’s “Fargiveness Long Drive Challenge” is a superb advertising marketing campaign for the newest Stealth 2 driver. To spotlight the driver’s robust efficiency on off-center strikes (a elaborate approach to say “mishits”), TaylorMade reps asked 5 of the finest golfers on the planet to purposely hit it out of the heel or toe to present the minimal drop in carry distance Carbon Fiber Twist Face gives.

As we highlighted on this year’s robotic testing for GOLF’s 2023 ClubTest, Stealth 2 noticed a powerful bump in ball velocity on mishits, so each professional in the video was going to see a tighter carry delta with the 2023 model.

As TaylorMade Tour reps Chris Trott and Adrian Rietveld added a layer of influence spray to the face and went over the guidelines, just one professional appeared to be genuinely confused by the objective of the competitors: Tiger Woods.

When informed he wanted to miss the coin dot in the center by nearly a full ball, Woods delivered a traditional line: “What? I trained my whole life to hit the ball in the middle.”

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Woods is what you’d name an all-time flusher. The sound of his strike stays simply totally different, and he not often misses the heart. It’s necessary to level this out as a result of as a lot as weekend golfers have bother hitting the ball out of the center on command, Woods suffered an identical, albeit hilarious, destiny as he tried to miss to drives throughout the competitors.

On the the first drive, he positioned the ball all the approach on the toe and impacted it nearer to the heart dot. On the second drive, Woods went for the heel part and ended up catching, you guessed it, the heart dot once more.

All Woods might do was giggle and smile. When you’re the GOAT, lacking the heart on function isn’t an possibility.

Check out the full video beneath to see who gained the lengthy drive belt.

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Jonathan Wall

Golf.com Editor

Jonathan Wall is GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com’s Managing Editor for Equipment. Prior to becoming a member of the employees at the finish of 2018, he spent 6 years masking gear for the PGA Tour.