Fowler benefits from shortening driver at Honda Classic

Rickie Fowler has chopped an inch off his driver, and it seems to be paying dividends as he hit 31 of 42 fairways in his first three rounds en route to winning the Honda Classic.

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The 28-year-old Californian went from a 44.5 inch Cobra King F7+ driver to a 43.5 inch shaft length.

"It's been a good week so far with driver,” Fowler said after his second round in Florida. “I played short with my irons, my 5-wood and 3-wood are both short and if you look at the progression of my 5-wood and 3-wood to where my driver was, they are roughly an inch apart except when I went to 3-wood and driver. Right now it's actually at a perfect progression and they are all roughly the same swing weight.”