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After a rough start in Hawaii
After a rough start in Hawaii
Six or seven years ago Harrison Frazar pulled up to Royal Oaks, his home club in Dallas, and received a Mizuno JPX 800 Irons.
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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 13, 2012 --
Six or seven years ago Harrison Frazar pulled up to Royal Oaks, his home club in Dallas, and received a Mizuno JPX 800 Irons. An employee told him, "You better go down to the range because there's a kid there who hits it farther than you do."
Frazar, now a 15-year PGA Tour veteran, has ranked as high as third in driving distance. He has long enjoyed his standing as the longest hitter at Royal Oaks. He strutted to the range and found Gary Woodland, then an undergraduate at Kansas, smacking four-irons for Royal Oaks's head pro, Randy Smith. Woodland wanted to hit a few drivers but was concerned he might reach the players on the teeing ground at the other end of the range. They were 320 yards away, into the wind. "When it's blowing like this, I can only roll it within 10 yards of them, " Frazar woofed. "Don't worry about it."
On his first swing Woodland smashed a drive over the heads of the unsuspecting folks off in the distance.
"Well, you were right, Harrison," Smith said. "He doesn't have to worry about Mizuno JPX 800 Irons ."
The legend of Gary Woodland, 27, has long been told around Texas and the Great Plains. In a game that is increasingly being defined by speed and power, he is an athlete of supreme gifts, a thick-shouldered, fast-twitch, 6'1", 195-pound onetime college basketball player who is only now beginning to harness his jaw-dropping potential. The larger golf world discovered Woodland last year, when as a sophomore on Tour he won the Transitions Championship (needing only 23 putts on Sunday), had 14 other top-25 finishes and launched more than a quarter of his drives at least 320 yards.
"He can be the best player in the world, if that's what he wants," says Frazar. "He simply needs to avoid all the Mizuno JPX 800 Irons ."
There have been plenty of them lately, as Woodland's rise to stardom was complicated by his decision to change agents at the end of 2011, signing with Mark Steinberg, Tiger Woods's wingman. One problem: The agent Woodland left behind is Blake Smith, Randy's son. Woodland had hoped to continue working with his longtime coach, but for Randy Smith it was an untenable situation. He ended his professional relationship with Woodland and canceled a trip to Maui for the season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions.
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