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Phil Mickelson caps first ever round in Kapalua with perfectly hooked driver off deck

Phil Mickelson capped his "fun" first-ever round in Kapalua with quite the exclamation point.

That exclamation point? A perfectly hooked driver off the deck on the par-5 18th en route to a birdie.

After Lefty smashed his tee shot 332 yards, he had another 330 yards to the hole, so he broke out his driver for a second consecutive shot - this time in the middle of the fairway - and launched his ball 304 yards, leaving it 77 feet from the cup. He left his eagle putt 8 feet short but then converted for birdie.

The 51-year-old has lately been fond of boomeranging his driver not just off the deck, but in the deep rough.