It’s been an eventful year for Hideki Matsuyama thus far and we’re only 1.25 tournaments in. After a red-hot 35 under at The Sentry—featuring a PGA Tour-record, 33 birdies—Matsuyama has kept things interesting at the Sony Open … especially for the fans.

Hideki Matsuyama narrowly avoided disaster during the first round of the Sony Open. In the end, the fly-driver mishap was just a speed bump on the way to a first-round 67. The post Hideki Matsuyama narrowly avoids flying-driver accident in first round of Sony Open appeared first on Golf.

On the ninth hole at the Sony Open in Hawaii, the former Masters champion hit an iffy tee shot, but it was his driver that ended up being the truly errant projectile. Matsuyama lost grip of the club on his follow through, sending it into the observers' area.