Craziest shot I've ever hit.....

**Dub** · April 16, 2009

Happened yesterday while playing my home course.

Number 6 hole is a par 3 island green located at the end of the lake our course sprawls around. The wind is usually right-to-left and when it's up...this hole is a real mean brute.

It was playing 175 yds with the typical wind....maybe 15mph or so...not too bad. I showed the right edge and hit five iron. It got up a bit higher than I'm accustomed too (fourth round with these irons) and drew and blew left.....landing just in the water.

Here is the freaky part....the ball bounced out of the water and onto the fringe...just clear of the bulkhead skirting the hole. We got a ton of laughs at that one....none of us could believe it.

The chip was a little tough due to the proximity to the bulkhead....but I did bogey it and was happy to due so.

I don't have a clue as to what I hit....the water is fairly deep out there as the earth was removed to build up parts of the surrounding course.

There were some turtles out there on that side when we looked over the edge....must have hit a turtles shell and bounced it back high and right.

I figure this freaking hole owes me....and the turtles were taking pity on me. I was gaming a brand new Pro V1 which went on to live through the entire round....just a little worse for wear. My scoring average on this windy monster isn't so great!!!! Imagine number 17 at Sawgrass but playing with a 4hybrid to a 7 iron....you'll get the picture.

**Jay-Bird** · April 16, 2009

**bogeyhitter25** · April 17, 2009

That's pretty awesome. Almost kind of like Christie Kerr's shot in the Kraft Nabisco.

**JetFan1983** · April 17, 2009

Haha, same exact thing happened to me last week. I credit myself though for using a high-spin ball, or else that thing never would've skipped over the water like that!

Everyone made fun of me though.

**Cody** · April 17, 2009

When i was playing with my grandpa one time he had a pretttttty crazy shot.

It was on a 9 hole course thats pretty nice and we were on the 9th comming into the club house. Behind the 9th green(which is a decent par 5), theres the cart path to the club house that goes through some trees. Well my grandpa hits a beautiful drive and is around 200 out. He takes out his iron and smacks it. It looked great, but it just went over the green and hit the cart path, bounced up, smacked a tree branch and then rolled within 5 feet of the cup. It was RIDICULOUS!

**MiniMoe** · April 17, 2009

I have hit some crazy good shots, and some crazy bad shots that turned out great. Almost too many to remember. One that happened a few weeks ago. We have a short par 4 that is a sharp dog leg right from 100 yard in with a bunker front right of the green. I can get real close or on if I aim a little left with a fade to the the ball turning in the direction of the dogleg. One day the group ahead of us left a cart short right of the green. I was feeling froggy and called I was going to hit he cart with my tee shot (no one was around it). We got there the same time the group came off the green. My ball was sitting in the floorboard of the card. The player that was in the cart almost drove off with my ball thinking he must have left one there. I still can't believe I called the shot. Now on every par three I call an ace.... just in case. One day I'm going to look GOOOOOOOD.

**bunkerputt** · April 17, 2009

That's wierd. Once I was out gathering balls for my used golf-ball business. I put on my scuba gear and went to gather some around this windy, island green hole on a course in Augusta. I had gotten to a fairly deep part where a bunch of turtles hang out that had been recently excavated when suddenly I felt something hit the back of my head! Knocked me clean out. The next thing I knew I was sitting on the bottom of the lake. When I came to, I climbed out next to a bulkhead with no clue as to what happened

**Big_M** · April 17, 2009

I've seen my brother-in-law hit trees on both sides of a fairway off the tee and have it land on the side of the first tree hit. RIGHT... LEFT... ends on right side in rough... trees were a good 30-40 yards apart if not more!

Personally... I have hit and maybe killed a squirel that was in a tree. I hit my tee shot and knocked the squirel out of the tree and into a wetland... hopefully the ball grazed him or just hit the tree branch and it lived... but I fear the worst. If it died I hope it was quick, poor squirel. Screwed up my hole round too... took a 9 on a par 5, and it was the signature hole.

**TN94z** · April 17, 2009

There is an older man that plays with us, he is nuts, but he really makes it fun. Anyway, we were on a par 3 with water on the right. He hits his tee shot that starts well over the water but is turning back toward the green. It is low and obvious that its going to hit in the water. There is a turtle in pond and he starts screaming, "hit the turtle, hit the turtle"...sure enough it hits the turtle's back, shoots toward the green, slams into the bank that pops it up into the air (like a flop shot), and then rolls up to about 2ft from the hole!!! It was the craziest thing I have ever seen!! If it would have went in the hole, I would have crapped my pants!!

But wait, it gets even crazier. As we are waiting on the tee box for the green to clear, Papaw (thats what we call the older man that I described above) was talking about the turtles (there was a group of them in one area) and he said, "I should just skip my shot off one of them turtles to make sure it stays dry." So he basically called his shot. It was nuts. One of the craziest shots I had seen.

**Monsieurgolf** · April 17, 2009

I was on a short par 4 that doglegged to the left over a creek. I put my drive into the deep rough and had not shot to the green due to the trees. So I punched out to the fairway and simply rolled it out there. Unfortunately, a bird was sitting right in the middle of the fairway and didn't move...next thing I know, the bird just falls over on it's side dead.

**mirv** · April 17, 2009

i was playing a course a couple of years ago, and the way this course is laid out, the 17th hole ends perpendicular to the 7th hole's fairway, so that the 17th green is only about 200 yards ahead and to the right of the 7th's tee box. well, i hit this sky-high banana ball that flew over a grove of trees and towards 17's green. i shake my head and start trudging over that direction. i get there and two guys who were playing up 17 are just beaming away at me.

"you guys see a ball come bouncing through here?" i ask.

"check in the hole!" says one of the guys. lo and behold, there's my ball.

now, of course, i couldn't see if it REALLY went in the hole from where i was, and these two might very well have just been playing a friendly prank on me. but it's possible that that was my first hole in one - and of course it would be on the wrong hole.

**Iowa Hawkeye** · April 17, 2009

I skipped a 3 wood across a pond by accident, only to have it hit the block retaining wall in front of the green about an inch from the top. So close, so clolse.

HighSchool Golf Freak · April 17, 2009

I was playing a course when I was nine down in florida with my dad. It was a partial island green with railroad ties on the front (Same thing as 17 at TPC sawgrass). I hit my iron perfect right at the pin on the front of the green but I spun it back because the ground was so soft. It ended up sitting on the railroad tie about 10 feet from the hole. I couldnt putt it as there was a sprinkler head in my way, so I had to chip it. ended up chipping it in for my first birdie in my golf career, with one of the hardest shots I had ever played

**Iowa Hawkeye** · April 18, 2009

On another water par 3 I've pulled it into a tree next to the green and bounced back on about 2 feet from the pin.

**flopdarock** · April 18, 2009

twice today i almost witness holes in one... just finished a short par 3 and we are on the next teebox when we hear ppl yelling "go! go! go!"... looked behind us and a ball is rolling up onto the green towards the hole stopping a few inches past the hole... some lady thinned her teeshot and it almost went in...
the other one... we were reading our putts and we hear "fore!"... a ball drops out of the sky over the top of all 3 of us... rolls to the hole and lips out... some kid hooked his teeshot from a teebox about 100 yrds away from our green going the opposite direction

**Dub** · April 20, 2009

Update:

The island shot I started the thread with occured last Wednesday. I played in a captain's choice format tourney at Forest Hills the following day. I gamed the exact same ball for the round....a well abused ProV1....first ball from the first sleeve of the first dozen of these I've ever purchased.

Anyway.....we get to a par 3 hole that has us hitting over a long water hazard to a well bunkered green.....I thin my tee shot badly and the same ball skips accross the water into the bunker and up the face and onto the fringe.....second most freakish thing I've ever done.

What should I do with this ball?????

**-BAMA-** · April 20, 2009

Update:

keep it forever.

**lumpuckeroo** · April 20, 2009

Got my only hole in one on kind of a crazy shot, the green of the par 3 is built into the side of a hill. I hit my tee shot, it hits the side of the hill, bounces straight right, hits the green and rolls in the hole!!!

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