list your best golf shot made ....
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Bladed my sandwedge on 3d shot of a par 5 over water. Shit, headed for water! Skips twice, runs up bank and in for eagle 3!
Another time wife and I were in a hurry so I said I'll play from the women's tees with you. Hit 9 iron on blind par 3. She asks if I hit a good one. "I think it's close" I say. Sure enough, in the hole! Didn't count of course as official hole in one.
Another time wife and I were in a hurry so I said I'll play from the women's tees with you. Hit 9 iron on blind par 3. She asks if I hit a good one. "I think it's close" I say. Sure enough, in the hole! Didn't count of course as official hole in one.
Great Thread , last summer Pitch N Putt course. Hole #4 98 yards and I tell to my 2 kids 17 and 11 at tee this is going in. Hit the shot 1 bounce on green and rolls about 10 feet right in. My boys faces were priceless!!!
Was playing the 9th hole of a public course here in Pittsburgh, it was cold, rainy, and windy. The hole plays about 230, and I dont carry anything but a driver and a driving iron. No way I could get my driving iron there on this day.
So, I pull the driver out and figured I could choke down on it take a light swing and bullet one up there in or around the green. Mind you, I am already like 8 over on the day and as a 9 handicap at this course, and within in my league, my day is over for winning any decent money probably.
Sure enough, I snap hook one out of bounds in the parking lot. Mother fucker, now my day is really over, and wanted to just leave. Yell to my dad, throw me another another fucking ball. He throws me some ball we found, gorged up, I dont even use a tee, and YEP, I put it in the hole. Hole in one, I mean three. LOL
Are fucking kidding me? Best par I ever had. Cost myself $20 per man, the greenie, and probably the bunny, or around $500-600 maybe. No, never had a hole one either. I hate this game.
So, I pull the driver out and figured I could choke down on it take a light swing and bullet one up there in or around the green. Mind you, I am already like 8 over on the day and as a 9 handicap at this course, and within in my league, my day is over for winning any decent money probably.
Sure enough, I snap hook one out of bounds in the parking lot. Mother fucker, now my day is really over, and wanted to just leave. Yell to my dad, throw me another another fucking ball. He throws me some ball we found, gorged up, I dont even use a tee, and YEP, I put it in the hole. Hole in one, I mean three. LOL
Are fucking kidding me? Best par I ever had. Cost myself $20 per man, the greenie, and probably the bunny, or around $500-600 maybe. No, never had a hole one either. I hate this game.
I can't believe I forgot about this.
Playing in a scramble sponsored by an insurance agency. The top 3 teams got to choose 1 player from their group to participate in a 1 shot shootout from 180 yds. for $20,000. I was chosen(not that good, just better than my teammates).
We finish ahead of a few teams so I go out to see which club I want to use. Okay, so it's my 7 wood. Beautiful. Pro is walking toward green, so I hit one last practice shot. I see it's close and still rolling. I bend down to gather my equipment and I hear "You should have saved that one, Ed." Yep. IN.
Shot that counted wasn't worth a damn, by the way.
(As you can see,I'm not worth a damn when it matters.)
Playing in a scramble sponsored by an insurance agency. The top 3 teams got to choose 1 player from their group to participate in a 1 shot shootout from 180 yds. for $20,000. I was chosen(not that good, just better than my teammates).
We finish ahead of a few teams so I go out to see which club I want to use. Okay, so it's my 7 wood. Beautiful. Pro is walking toward green, so I hit one last practice shot. I see it's close and still rolling. I bend down to gather my equipment and I hear "You should have saved that one, Ed." Yep. IN.
Shot that counted wasn't worth a damn, by the way.
(As you can see,I'm not worth a damn when it matters.)
14th hole at Finkbine in Iowa City, about 410 yards, probably around 1983.
I had been playing fairly excellent all day when I got to the 14th. After a perfect fairway wood off the tee, I'm lying in the fairway with the ball significantly below my feet, about 170 yards left up a significant hill, I can only see a bit of the pin at the back of the green.
My 6 iron (Hogan Apex) shot is launched straight in the air like a rocket, perfect balance and tempo to the swing, feels purer than an orgasm, dead straight for the pin, I know immediately this is so right it could be in.
The whole walk up the hill, I'm anxious to see if it's in. Getting to the green, there is no ball, but a large ball mark about 20 feet in front of the hole, perfectly placed for the small right to left break back to the pin. At that point I would have made a very sizeable wager the ball was in the hole and not over the green. Indeed it was, eagle 2.
I've got memories of a lot of great shots, often with a lot more on the line, but I've always said that is the best shot I've ever hit.
GL
I had been playing fairly excellent all day when I got to the 14th. After a perfect fairway wood off the tee, I'm lying in the fairway with the ball significantly below my feet, about 170 yards left up a significant hill, I can only see a bit of the pin at the back of the green.
My 6 iron (Hogan Apex) shot is launched straight in the air like a rocket, perfect balance and tempo to the swing, feels purer than an orgasm, dead straight for the pin, I know immediately this is so right it could be in.
The whole walk up the hill, I'm anxious to see if it's in. Getting to the green, there is no ball, but a large ball mark about 20 feet in front of the hole, perfectly placed for the small right to left break back to the pin. At that point I would have made a very sizeable wager the ball was in the hole and not over the green. Indeed it was, eagle 2.
I've got memories of a lot of great shots, often with a lot more on the line, but I've always said that is the best shot I've ever hit.
GL
230 ... thats just a smooth 5 iron :shrug:
and you are a 9 ... must be an executive course :mj07:
and oh yea ... NICE PAR :facepalm:
That's great! Still waiting for my first. Need to get an Orange glove for sure.
:toast:
30-foot putt I made while Joker was filming it.
He had just enough tape to record the entire scene.
"Eat that one Bart!"
:mj07:
He had just enough tape to record the entire scene.
"Eat that one Bart!"
:mj07:
I never play 14 very well at Finkbine, Lost. 13 is a lot of fun, especially when the flag is on the back green rather than the front one.
I've birdied 14 before, but never eagled it.
I dropped my tee shot on a 165 yr par 3 about 5 feet below the hole and it rolled to a stop right on the lip of the cup--so close to an ace.
the best shot I've ever hit has to be the double eagle I made on a 525 yr par 5. Downhill to start, then a dog leg left with a slight rise into the green. Striped my drive and had 230 or so left to a fairly large and deep green with the pin in the back left that day.
Stepped all over a 3 wood and saw it take a nice bounce in front of the green before it disappeared from my sight. my playing partners said very nice shot, should have a decent look at an eagle.
We get up to the green and find everyone's ball but mine--it wasn't short and we didn't find it behind the green, either.
I approached the hole and there it was at the bottom of the cup....:toast:
years ago small 9 hole course with differnt tees on some making them longer par 4's !
a par 3 125 yd all water in front sand traps around !
i hit a sweet 8 iron it hit in front of flag and crawled close ! when we got to green me and friends said DAMNNN bill that's auto birdie tap in !
was 1 inch off the cup ! :facepalm:
never got that ace ever
dont play anymore
a par 3 125 yd all water in front sand traps around !
i hit a sweet 8 iron it hit in front of flag and crawled close ! when we got to green me and friends said DAMNNN bill that's auto birdie tap in !
was 1 inch off the cup ! :facepalm:
never got that ace ever
dont play anymore
I dont play golf,but had to play once a year at a business meeting,best ball thankfully. I do have an athletic background,played dtackle in college and had a cup of coffee with the NY football giants in 1975. I played at 6" 2' 250,and was probably 260 at the time of these stories.Never got much farther than par three golf and the driving range as a kid of 17,18,then forgot about golf. I would hit the ball well very infrequently in my yearly game. In 2001 we played at the Cour d'alene Resort Golf course. To this day I can't control woods,so I use only irons for my yearly game. The first three holes I didnt hit one straight shot with my 5 iron. We were recently acquired by new ownership and they actually sprung for caddys for that first year only. I joking told the caddy that I was going to drive the dog leg 322 yd par four,and he looked at me with the yeah right look. I'll give the guy credit:when he heard the sound of me striking the ball,with his back turned,he immediately starting yelling fore to the foursome on the green(including the ceo of the new company.)somehow,i had hit the ball perfectly,as hard as i could have possibly hit it,right over the tall pines protecting the dog leg.It landed ten feet in front of the green. The caddy told me that John Daly was the only other person who had driven that dogleg,but im guessing he didnt do it with a five iron. Didn't hit another good shot until the 18th,but that one moment i will never forget. I also hit a 320 yd 4 iron at the legacy in Las Vegas as a tee shot. again pure luck that I hit it with all my might and it went out and then rose up like a drive does with a wood when you hit it right.Not much of the 320 was a roll,most of the shot carried in the air.dont know how it happened but i swear i am not exaggerrating on either shot.My 5'6" boss who was a lifetime golfer barely could muster a "nice shot" after the four iron.course i proceed to break windows out of every house around every other hole that day,but from what I know about golf,its the times it works perfectly that brings people back for more.
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First off, let me say this: great thread.
Next, my papa (grandfather), has 4 aces in his golf career. 3 on one hole, and one on another. He is scratch golfer and now retired so golfs everyday atleast 18. I always have found that fascinating that one man has 4 hole in ones, and 3 on the same hole.
As for me, I always have said it was me best shot, but if honest I would probably just say it was my most memorable shot.
We were in annual scramble for my best friend who died. It was the 2nd year of the event, and it has a nice purse. 36 teams in the event, and we were one of last groups in. I help run the event, so I was texting my buddies and knew we were tied at 14 under for the lead going into the last hole. Par 4, monster staring us in the face. My buddy smokes a drive and we play his ball. Used my approach shot, but it wasn't pretty. We have about a 40 footer that we had to have to win.
At this point, basically all 36 teams are at the green watching to see what happens...
I was putting first all day, so I said here goes nothing.
Hit it good, and I still remember someone in the crowd yelling, "get in the hole tiger"....and I honestly felt like tiger at that point....
And sure thing, that mother fucker dropped dead nuts in the cup and we drank a lot that night.....couple thousand dollar putt....from 40 feet.....and I have said everytime that it was about 95% luck and 5% skill :toast:
Next, my papa (grandfather), has 4 aces in his golf career. 3 on one hole, and one on another. He is scratch golfer and now retired so golfs everyday atleast 18. I always have found that fascinating that one man has 4 hole in ones, and 3 on the same hole.
As for me, I always have said it was me best shot, but if honest I would probably just say it was my most memorable shot.
We were in annual scramble for my best friend who died. It was the 2nd year of the event, and it has a nice purse. 36 teams in the event, and we were one of last groups in. I help run the event, so I was texting my buddies and knew we were tied at 14 under for the lead going into the last hole. Par 4, monster staring us in the face. My buddy smokes a drive and we play his ball. Used my approach shot, but it wasn't pretty. We have about a 40 footer that we had to have to win.
At this point, basically all 36 teams are at the green watching to see what happens...
I was putting first all day, so I said here goes nothing.
Hit it good, and I still remember someone in the crowd yelling, "get in the hole tiger"....and I honestly felt like tiger at that point....
And sure thing, that mother fucker dropped dead nuts in the cup and we drank a lot that night.....couple thousand dollar putt....from 40 feet.....and I have said everytime that it was about 95% luck and 5% skill :toast:
