My First Albatross

[missin44]

I just saw the post about a members first Eagle and it reminded me of my Albatross.

I had been playing a couple months, this was about 20 yrs ago. Par 5, no idea about the yardage, hidden green. We teed off and I hit the only desent drive in my life to that point, right down the center, maybe 225 yrds. Got to my ball had a nice lie, swung at it with my 3 Wood. It was late July and hadn't rained in about 4 weeks, the course did very litte watering if any, what grass there was was brown and crunchy. The ball gets airborne but is very low, goes maybe 100 yrd in the air, hits a patch of bare ground and keeps going. Basicly what it would do if it landed in a asphalt parking lot. Anyway ball goes over a small rise and out of sight. My buddies hit thier shots, everyone found there ball except me. Looked in the weeds to no avail. So I tossed another ball on the ground took a stroke and hit my third shot, took me 4 more shots to actually keep the ball on the green. So I was laying 8 and had yet to put. One of the other guys one putts, goes to get his ball. He pulls out 2 balls. His, and my lost ball! I went from what would have been at least a 10 to a 2.

Given the conditions sorta hard to call it legit, but it was fun at the time.

[iacas]

That's as legit as they come, c'mon now! Don't diss yourself!

[teebuck911]

lol, nice one you have done somthing that most golfers dream of, lol ever some of the best has not had one yet,

[missin44]

It was pretty cool. But like a say what grass there was was brown and litrally crunched under your feet. It was so bad that pretty much any on any hill on incline all you had to do was drop a ball and it would roll to the bottom. Like I say like hitting the ball in a parking lot. None the less regardless of how far the ball would roll it did go into a tiny little hole from a long way away.

[The Rambler]

very cool...before we got our watering system my golf course was rock hard(we actually had the watering system in the ground for about 2 years but th city couldnt front the cash to run it. (i have to get some pictures in of my course)