A 140 meter iron shot for eternity.
A crazy “Tiger Woods” shot out of the rough, deep, played above the water hazard and planting the mast, followed by an authoritarian putt on the 18th hole at Torrey Pines at the end of January to sign the greatest feat of modern men's French golf.
Winning on the PGA Tour, the legendary American circuit, an unprecedented feat since Louis Tellier in… 1921. A few weeks later, the former French number one Grégory Havret is still in shock:
“
It’s magical to have seen Matthieu Let's win this way,
he confides to Le
Figaro
.
This shot on
18 is a shot that the Tiger of his great years could have pulled off.
That's why he was so strong in making shots that only he could get out.
We would have been hallucinating fifteen
years ago, here it is a Frenchman who is doing it.
Without his very good technique, his great physique and this always ambitious state of mind, it would have been impossible for him to achieve this shot at this given moment
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