Shot of the Year<\/a> shortlist, with fans voting throughout December for their favourite. Rory McIlroy\u2019s five-wood at the K Club received nearly one-third of all the votes, and took the award. <\/p>\nOn the 72nd hole of the Irish Open, tournament host McIlroy faced 252 yards (230 meters), over water, to a back pin. He was leading by just a single shot and knew one good swing would see him win his national open for the first time. The shot that followed started over the water, landed on the green and came to rest less than one metre from the hole. <\/p>\n
\u201cI actually thought I hit my drive too far left,\u201d said the 27-year-old. \u201cI thought it had ran out. But it was playing a lot longer than it had been playing the previous couple of days. I had a good yardage. I had 222 to the front, 256 to the pin. And I had a similar shot in the pro-am, actually. JP tried to get me to hit a four-iron, and it was a similar wind, as well, but I felt like I was trying to hit it too hard. So I actually dropped another ball in the pro-am and hit five-wood, a very similar shot to what I hit today. Actually got a little bit of practice there. I didn\u2019t know I would need it at the end of the week but there you go.\u201d <\/p>\n
McIlroy\u2019s shot narrowly beat out Scott Hend for Shot of the Year. Hend\u2019s albatross at the Shenzhen International received 22.3 per cent of the fan votes while Brett Rumford\u2019s perfectly judged bunker shot at the ISPS HANDA Perth International\u00a0rounded out the top three. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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