PALM HARBOR, Fla. – If choosing a player to make history on a par 5 this week at the Valspar Championship, Russell Knox would have been pretty low on the list of likely prospects.
Knox is hardly known as one of the Tour’s longest hitters, with his 292-yard average off the tee ranking him 108th in driving distance this season. But he threw the stats out the window during the opening round at Innisbrook, holing a 3-wood from 275 yards away on No. 11 for the first-ever albatross in tournament history.
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“It’s a very quick way to go from 2 over to 1 under, I promise you that,” Knox said.