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profile and such. The clubhead is so small and simple, that they’re so hard to make flat. So if you have to hit a fairway wood off a tee and it’s upright, that’s great. But if you’re hitting that club off the ground it’s a different story and you might start hitting it off the heel a little bit. I’ve been lucky with Callaway that they’ve been able to help me flatten it out and get the right lie an- gle to where I can get a good strike off the tee or off the ground. Moving to the irons, when you were a teenager you played blades and you learned there was no reason to make the game harder. What you’re in now with the Apex Pro 19 is more of a mod- ern players iron. What about those irons resonate with you? For starters they’re not plated. They rust pretty easily and while it might not seem like a big thing, having glare come off my irons is not something I enjoy and these prevent that from happening. They’re easier to line up because of that, too. They also have a sleek topline with a cavity-back

that gives you just enough forgiveness with a blade-like feel. And you can still hit all the shots with them. For me the trickiest thing is figuring out the spin and loft. Not all of them are the same so they take a little bit longer for me to figure out. I got into these irons pretty quick for me. What is it about a mallet putter as op- posed to a blade that you like? Is it stroke-related, alignment-related or a little of both? A conventional blade has more toe hang so that’s for people who want to rotate the face more. I’m not that person. I don’t have a strong arc to my stroke so the mallet works better for me. Also everyone eyes a putt in a unique way and every- one lines up differently. I seem to line up better when I have a lot of lines and I’m OK with a kind of weird shape with fangs and lines all over the place. It;’s all eye calibration and what you see with that putter. I picked it up last year at Colo- nial C.C. I wasn’t putting very well, looked down at it and thought it looked pretty good and I’ve stuck with it every since. OK, have to ask about that squirrely tee shot on Sunday on the 13th hole. Is that some- thing that you just laugh off or is it more like, “ Whoa? Where did that come from? ” You know, I read a few things about how I topped that shot and I didn’t. That shot I hit was a bumped driver. You can tell from my swing speed that I was hitting it about 40 percent. I had been doing it all week, I just hadn’t been on TV when doing it and I knew I was going to take some crap about the ball speed because I just kind of chipped it out there. It’s a shot I hit when it’s super windy. I didn’t have a 3-iron in the bag so it was either a 4-iron or a 5-wood and I didn’t want to hit a 3- or 5-wood up in the wind and the 4-iron wouldn’t get out there far enough, so I decided to try and chip my driver. On No. 4 at Kapalua I was hitting the same shot and driving it low and watching it run. It’s a new addition to my arsenal.