Vaughn Ridley(Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images)No one has ever described Dustin Johnson as a peashooter, and with good reason: the 32-year-old's routinely among the sport's long-drive leaders, boasting a tour-best 313 yards off the tee this season (highlighted by a 413-yard rocket earlier this year at Muirfield Village). Even in that cadence, what the 2016 U.S. Open winner did on Thursday at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational is absurd.
On Firestone South's par-5 16th, DJ sent his drive soaring through the Ohio skies. Perhaps “sent” is the wrong word; let's go with “pummeled,” as his ball traveled an absurd 439 yards:
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Admittedly, Akron is the site of some of the longest belts of the season; the last time the tournament was conducted in the August humidity (it was moved last year due to Olympic scheduling), a third of the field averaged over 325 yards on the week.
Still, 439 yards? That's a long piece of nec..

Matthew Lewis/Getty ImagesMichelle Wie looks on with her caddie during the first round of the Ricoh Women's British Open at Kingsbarns Golf Links.ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Predictably, Michelle Wie enjoyed her early morning stroll around the picturesque links of Kingsbarns out there on the East Neuk of Fife. Opening the Ricoh Women’s British Open with an eight-under par 64—a new course record for the 17-year-old Kyle Phillips design— will do that, of course. Making nine birdies wasn’t too shabby either, especially after an ugly bogey at the par-5 second hole, the result of a skulled lob-wedge from the “perfect” lay-up spot, that turned out to be nothing more than a false alarm.
Indeed, that early dropped shot was merely the harbinger of greater things ahead. And lots of “fun.” Such was her peace of mind, the 27-year-old Hawaiian even had time to take in the stunning vistas across the “ocean” that is actually the indeterminate border between the Firth of Tay and the North Sea known a..