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jamesbei Well Established Member

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I was wondering what you feel the best feeling in golf is,

Mine is when you nail a 4-6 iron with the desired shape to 2 foot past the hole and it checks back to stone dead. You?

However Holing a chip or long put is pretty fun too.

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No matter how crap youve played,sticking your approach to the 18th on the pin to the applause of your peers watching from the clubhouse varanda

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Dent Great Member

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Id have to say sticking a nice approach shot. I chipped in my first round yesterday and that felt pretty good too.
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Most amazing: a well-struck drive, accurate drive. Sometimes, it's simply dumbfounding that a person can stand in a square of grass, stare out at an area of grass 250 yards away, swing a 42" long stick and propel a 3" ball out to that spot. It boggles me sometimes what we're capable of.

Best physical feeling: a purely struck iron. How the best swings feel effortless, how you don't even feel the contact on the clubface.

Best golf feeling: holing a medium-length putt. When you stick a shot, you feel compelled to make the putt. When you're miles away, you feel lucky when you get close (or get it in). When you're 20+ feet, close enough to read it, close enough to judge it, but it's still not likely you'll make it, and that slow-motion, dead-quiet period, where you're just watching it roll, and the ball seems to seek out the hole, and disappear over the edge. My friend, it gets no better than that.

Nothing in the swing is done at the expense of balance.

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The feeling I get when I know I've actually pured a shot, knowing there is no way I could have hit it any better. I can't even tell I struck the ball....

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twotacosfor99cents Well Established Member

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My first and last eagle last year - best feeling ever. Par 4 at Stanford University's 5th hole, a perfect drive, then a 7 iron 10 feet in front of the pin, then watching the ball disappear into the hole. I felt a huge rush when I hit that.

Sinking long putts is great too. Lipping them is not.
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A chip in from any distance, for any score.

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Saving par from an "impossible" place. Rips the heart out of opponents.

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CG031 Great Member

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When you execute a CLUTCH shot or putt in front of your teammates watching on the last hole/green, and you win by a stroke. :)

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Three Putt Great Member

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Mine is when you nail a 4-6 iron with the desired shape to 2 foot past the

that is my vote, keeps you coming back!

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No matter how crap youve played,sticking your approach to the 18th on the pin to the applause of your peers watching from the clubhouse varanda

Seconded.

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Ben Great Member

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Making putts! Period, that's it. It's the part of the game where you win or lose. Whether its making a bomb of a 40 footer for birdie, or a slippery 5 footer for a great up and down par. There is nothing better than seeing, or hearing that putt drop.

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Last weekend, a chip in on the 18th hole. Felt awesome, till I realized I still lost, but my friends congratulated me on the hole.

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sonicblue Great Member

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Making putts! Period, that's it. It's the part of the game where you win or lose. Whether its making a bomb of a 40 footer for birdie, or a slippery 5 footer for a great up and down par. There is nothing better than seeing, or hearing that putt drop.

Absolutely agree. See my first post here. Your target is that little cup. The way putts always seem to go in slow motion. The way the ball just succumbs to gravity and drops in for that magical "clunk." I love it.

Nothing in the swing is done at the expense of balance.

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DJYoshi Great Member

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for me the best feeling is the all around game
picking a club, picking a line, the type of shot you're gonna play, then executing it.
I'm happier with a round in the 90's if my ball striking and shot shapes are on point as compared to a lower score with ok ball striking.
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