There were only 13 rounds under par on the final day and those with early tee-off times benefited.
Unless visitors are fortunate enough to have secured one of the few advance booking slots, they have to take their chances in the daily draw for tee-off times.
Only a handful of players made it out onto the course before play was suspended, with halfway leader Tiger Woods holding a two-shot advantage after 36 holes as he and most of the field waited for their new tee-off times.
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Garcia finds the green with his tee-shot off the 154 yard second - the shortest hole on the Wentworth course - but misses a 12-foot birdie putt.
The fast, baked fairways in Hong Kong enabled Jimenez - generally a 280-yard-a-time striker off the tee - to improve his driving distance stats considerably too with an overall tournament return of 304.9 yards on average.
"That was rough, " Holmes said of his play-off tee shot which found the water.
He strained the wrist while swinging a weighted bat left-handed off a tee Mar. 5 in an indoor cage during pregame warm-ups with the U.S. team for the World Baseball Classic.
It broke sharply into the cup, and then he hit 3-wood off the tee on the 10th, leaving it some 10 yards short of the green with the left pin.
Guan had a bogey at the par-3 second after his tee shot off the back of the green.
On the fifth hole Thursday, for example, Woods's low-boring iron off the tee found the left side of the fairway.
Such is the interest generated by the six-footer, Wie will tee off in her first pro event on 13 October as her sport's top female earner.
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Realizing the pin was not tucked on the side, he laid back off the tee with a 3-wood, and then hit 6-iron into 10 feet for a birdie.
McIlroy, who dates former World No.1 tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, will get an early chance to silence the doubters as he is due to tee off next week in the WGC-Cadillac Championship on Doral's daunting Blue Monster Course.
The shortstop fielded 41 grounders hit directly at him near the left-field fence, hit off a tee in a batting cage and played catch.
As ever, tee-to-green efficiency had to be rounded off with a sure touch on the greens and Scott came up with the goods, taking a more-than-respectable 29 putts a time.
Hanson bogeyed two of the first three holes, and Mickelson suffered an excruciating triple bogey on the par-three fourth hole when his tee shot pinged off the spectator railing into a bamboo thicket.
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After a long drive off the tee, Lewis hit a 200-yard shot toward the pin that stopped about 5 inches short.
John Daly once hit a tee shot off the top of a beer can during a pro-am.
Critics say Augusta and other men-only golf clubs are more than just places to tee off with the guys.
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While the hard ground - because of the underlying sand drying quickly - allows the ball to travel further from the tee, the ground off the fairway is far less forgiving.
O'Gara was forced to attempt a drop-kick for the conversion after the wind blew the ball off the tee.
The Wallabies put the All Blacks on the back-foot from the off but Kurtley Beale was twice wayward off the tee as six points went begging early on.
He found 71.4% of fairways off the tee , or 40 out of 56, and his usual gun-barrel accuracy with his approach shots was once again in evidence as he hit 76.4% of greens in regulation figures.
Once word got out that legendary Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken liked to bust slumps by swatting balls off a batting tee as far as he could, for instance, every high-school team suddenly owned a tee.
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Myler was again wayward off the boot but he killed the game off in the 68th minute when Foden brilliantly collected an up-and-under to force an infringement before Myler's kick sailed over off the tee from 40m out.
Castres full-back Pierre Bernard sent a penalty wide from long range before Reihana missed off the tee once more.
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