OCALA, Fla. – Lexi Thompson was so hot early in Wednesday’s first round of the Coates Golf Championship, she was holing putts with her eyes closed.
No kidding. Thompson putted with her eyes closed in a round of 3-under-par 69.
Why?
“It feels like I’m burning a hole through the golf ball with my eyes sometimes,” Thompson said.
Thompson said she didn’t have much feel with her putter late last season, so she began putting with her eyes closed, as a drill, on the practice green at the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship.