Possible Clues:

• Golfer's approach, often
• Not for driving a cannon-ball
• No driver needed for this if one is ready to deal with the washing
• The cannon ball, it seems, is ready to deal with the washing
• It's not fired by the driver, of course
• There's no driver, of course, for such a cannon ball
• Not for putting, of course, so as to get fired
• Of course there's no driver for it