Fade On Command: Matthieu Pavon is an emerging star after recent swing adjustments Matthieu Pavon is used to playing a lot of curve, especially with the driver. The 32-year-old Frenchman and PGA Tour rookie hits his patented left-to-right fade about 95 percent of the time off the tee, says his swing coach, Jamie Gough. “Moving Read more…
The shank. Golf’s most-dreaded and gruesome shot scares some golfers to the point of refusing to even utter the S-word. And one Aussie announcer did his best to avoid it as well.
Frenchman Matthieu Pavon birdied the 72nd hole of the Farmers Insurance Open to win his first PGA Tour title in only the third start of his rookie season.
On the greens Pavon ranked fifth in strokes gained/putting, bettering the field average by more than five strokes. His putter is a centre-shafted Ping Cadence TR Tomcat – a mid-mallet model Ping introduced in 2015.
It is no surprise, as the DP World Tour resumes this week in Dubai, to see the 10 players who qualified for their PGA Tour cards last season planning the months ahead in their own individual ways.
The men who have gained their PGA Tour cards through season-long play on the DP World Tour in 2023 – a Pole, a New Zealander, two Frenchmen, a Dane, a Swede, a Scotsman, a Spaniard, a Japanese and a Finn – are definitely the first of their kind.