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. He first broke it out from the woods at the Fortinet Championship in September…