“Something I can say forever”
Adam Long had a solid week at the World Wide Technology Championship, but he also pulled off a feat the PGA Tour hasn’t seen since 1992.
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Adam Long made one of his best starts in months at the World Wide Technology Championship at El Cardonal in Diamante last week, and one of the main reasons for that was that he played every other shot from close range. Yes, every one. Long didn’t miss a fairway all week.
If that sounds absurd, that’s probably because it is. Long’s 56-for-56 fairway week made him the first player since Brian Claar, who accomplished the feat at the 1992 Memorial Tournament, to finish a four-round PGA Tour tournament with 100 percent shot accuracy. Exactly, 31 years ago!
“If you want to have a short to average length, you have to be pretty accurate to survive out here on Tour,” Long told PGATour.com. “…It’s something I pay attention to and work hard on.”
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Admittedly, the Tiger Woods-designed El Cardonal Golf Course features expansive, forgiving fairways with an average landing area width of 60 yards. Some players hit every fairway perfectly on certain rounds, and Paul Haley and Troy Merritt only missed one fairway each all week. Nearly a dozen more were 54 of 56. But only Long could do that perfect.
On Sunday he shot a long-distance 69, good enough for a T23 result this week, his best result since a T16 at the Barbasol Championship in July.
However, his excellent driving accuracy during the week shouldn’t be a complete surprise. Over the last two Tour seasons, Long has ranked 33rd and 24th in driving accuracy, respectively. He ranks 13th in shot accuracy this season – hitting 66.78 percent of his fairways – although an epic 56-for-56 performance certainly boosted that number.
“That’s something I can say forever,” Long told PGATour.com. “A kind of bragging rights or an interesting statistic at quiz nights.”
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