How You Know The Ball Goes Too Far After Another Week At Riviera
/You know how I know the ball goes too far and just makes a total mess of things?
—This driving range fence was just a normal chainlink fence in the mid-80s. Now they bring in a special extension tournament week and Bryson DeChambeau was still able to clear it last week…
Riviera’s range, with temporary extension installed during tournament week.
—Monday’s Celebrity Cup participants could drive the 10th green. They had to wait for the surface to clear to tee off. Oliver Hudson drove over the 10th green…
After a long wait for the green to clear, A-Rod tees off in the Celebrity Cup.
—They put a concession stand where players used to hit bad drives off the 434-yard third hole. Now they miss 40 yards farther down the hole. And in Phil Mickelson’s case (this is the long ball search for him), 40 yards right of the fairway edge…
That concession stand was once a popular spot for missed drives, now it’s a safe spot!
The 10th at Riviera is not a drivable par-4, it’s a 3-woodable long par-3 where the layup is at a disadvantage based on the birdies made. The 2020 ShotLink scatter chart:
