draw shot

After four defeats from nine in the group stage, GB only scraped into the semi-finals courtesy of other results going their way and the tiebreak of the 'draw shot challenge'.

Advancing by virtue of the second tiebreaker — a pregame test called the draw shot challenge — Japan will get a rematch against Switzerland in Friday’s semifinal.

Because they all went 1-1 in head-to-head, the tiebreaker — used for the first time in the Olympics — was their average distance in the draw shot challenge, a pregame, two-throw draw to the button on an empty sheet.

If you can’t visualize a draw shot shape, it’s going to be hard to hit one.

“For a left-handed golfer, hitting that left-to-right draw shot, the ball is typically going to travel farther. If a right-handed player hits that same shot, from left-to right, the ball usually doesn’t go quite as far.”