Craziest bad shot you've ever seen

**kfowler** · January 15, 2010

What's the craziest bad shot you've ever seen? I'm not talking about totally whiffing the ball. Unless someone did that and then fell down. That would be pretty funny. Here's an example and my nomination.

I was playing with a buddy last year who has a 30+ HCP. He's a lefty. He plays baseball and is very thick chested. He has a huge over-the-top swing. First day out for the season last year and he's lying in the fairway on the second hole about to hit his approach shot with a short iron. He swings at the ball and tops it so bad that it actually went backwards about chest height at a 45* angle. I started busting out laughing. I think he could have spent the rest of the day there trying to duplicate the same shot and never be able to do it. It was the first time I've ever seen someone swing at the ball and it go backwards. Unbelievable.

**trog2233** · January 15, 2010

Last year my friend and I are on a par 3 and hes hitting a 7 iron. He blades it and it darts about 5 feet off the ground right at the hole and hits the flag and catches it like a mitt. The ball falls straight down and sits about 4 inches from the cup. That would of been the craziest hole in one EVER! haha

**Elvisliveson** · January 15, 2010

Back in the early eighties, when the drivers weren't so forgiving, I had a friend who was the master of unusual, bad tee shots. One time, he shanked his tee shot and hit two Japense ladies (bounced off the shoulder of the 1st one into the stomach of the 2nd) on the previous geen which was at a right angle to us. Another time, same course, different hole, he grounded his tee shot, it hit the red stone tee marker ahead, shot up into the air backwards over our heads, snaked down a tree and into a waste basket! I promise everyone who reads this I have not embellished on these stories one bit: it is 100% the truth.

**kfowler** · January 15, 2010

No necessarily a bad shot but I had a friend who bought a new driver from Wal-Mart. We were ragging on him because it looked so funny. We went straight to the driving range and hit first swing, the ball went about 30 yards and the driver head flew about 50 yards. Apparently the was some really bad epoxy on the shaft.

**newbgolfer** · January 15, 2010

I was with a friend who was teeing off whites. He topped that thing that it flew literally 1 inch off the ground....into the women's teebox marker. It a large pink golfball shaped marker and it shattered into 10 pieces.

**Bastid** · January 15, 2010

I was playing with a friend at a course around here and on the sixth hole, a short par 5, I hit my tee shot in a thick stand of trees down the left side. He put his right in the middle of the fairway and had roughly 235 yards to the green. I went into the trees, found my ball, and proceeded to hit one of the most amazing recovery shots I had ever hit. Went through about thirty yards of heavy trees and made it out to the fairway. As I walked out of the trees, my friend hit his second shot and I watched as it flew to the green, took one bounce and then rolled into the hole, for a flippin' albatross. He came walking by and asked if I saw where his ball went, I said it went in. He thought I meant into the water short of the green and I said no, into the goddamn hole. He laughed it off and didn't believe me until he walked up to the green and his titleist was nestled in the hole. I had never witnessed a double eagle before, I don't know how long it will be until I do again but it was amazing (crazy).

Crappiest thing about it was that I was giving him a hard time about buying a hybrid that day. I used to be against hybrids because I thought they were gimmicky clubs, he picked it up that morning and proceeded to go out and dunk one for a deuce on a par 5. Needless to say, I had to eat some serious crow.

**Bastid** · January 15, 2010

I didn't realize it the title that it was craziest BAD shot I've ever seen. My bad, I thought it was just the craziest.

**James_Black** · January 15, 2010

Umm craziest BAD shot I've seen is a guy I was playing with he teed his ball up too high and and it went straight up in the air, only prob was the wind was in our face and it ended up behind the teebox.

Craziest shot I've done is there's a metal pole marking where a big slope is, I was behind it and I took it out and put it on the ground in front of me, I then thinned the ball and it hit the pole came straight back around head height and went at least 50 yards back.

**kfowler** · January 15, 2010

I didn't realize it the title that it was craziest BAD shot I've ever seen. My bad, I thought it was just the craziest.

Still a good stoy.

**upah** · January 15, 2010

My buddy shanked his tee shot on the first hole of our local 9-hole muni. His ball hit the left tee box marker of the forward tees and bounced back and to our left, bounced off the roof of the clubhouse about 40 yards directly to our left, and ended up in the parking lot about 6 spaces from where we parked. The total ball displacement would have been about 80 yards away, roughly 8 o'clock from where he was aiming. We picked his ball up after we finished our nine

**DavidFehertysBike** · January 15, 2010

For set up, we were on a par 4 hole about 380 yards that had OB on the left side. There was a road less then 30 yards from the fairway all the way down to the green. From the tee, this guy hit some kind of wicked pull slice that went to the other side of the road on the left, rode on a telephone wire for at least 5 yards, and sliced back right on to the course. I swear to god this happened. It was one of the most ridiculous things ive ever seen on a golf course.

**Yukari** · January 15, 2010

Went to a course near Las Vegas about four years ago. On par 3 hole, a cart girl pulls up behind us after one of the buddies had teed off. I tell her I will get something after everyone has teed off. So she is waiting about 50 feet behind and slightly left of the tee box. There is a tree just off the tee box on the right side. I tee up, make my swing, the stupid ball hits one of the branches leaning over the tee box, and the ball careens backward and lands right next to the cart girl. Needless to say, all my buddies gave me a hard time saying I did that intentionally to get near the cart girl. Maybe it was--subconsciously...

**Gordon McTavish** · January 15, 2010

Craziest bad shot I've witnessed would be own poor attempt to punch between a pair of staked trees. The ball hit the nearest tree, bounced at right angles into the tree next to it, proceeded to bounce off that tree into another one that was to my left and landed roughly where I had played the shot from.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to reproduce such a trick-shot again!

**McIlroy_man** · January 15, 2010

When i was playing the old course at st andrews a couple of years ago. i was on the 17th tee and thought id give it a real go and cut a bit of the corner with the driver. I hit a massive slice right into the hotel and heard it crash of the roof. So thought to myself lost ball. I then proceeded to reload and hit the exact same shot and again hear it crash of the roof!

I didnt want to embarrass myself further by doing it again so we just walked on up the hole and there right in the middle of the fairway were both of my golf balls, lying no more than 5 yards apart! couldnt believe my eyes....i then managed to get a par!

bunkerking321 · January 15, 2010

I actually have two, both involving my future wife. Before I tell the story I want you to know that she decent golf. Has been shooting in the mid 90's for the past 3 months but when we first started playing this stuff happened. We were playing a par four that was lined with trees on the right. We were playing in a foursome and we all drove to the right of the fairway. We play ready golf so we all walked up to our balls. She was the first to hit. Her ball was about 15 yards directly behind her dad and uncles'. They moved behind a big tree just in case. She swings, hits the tree they are hiding behind and it veers right and nails the golf cart. I lost it! Then the second was about two weeks later. Her drive landed about 2 yards behind a tree. It was a terrible lie. It blocked her shot to the green. Instead of punching out she decides to take her hybrid and swing away. She hit it and it bounces off the tree and bounces right back into her thigh. She had a welt immediately. God love her

**underparnv** · January 15, 2010

I love this story, and I never let my father in law live it down either

Middle of the summer playing a nine hole course the next town over. We get to the short par three seventh hole. It's about 120 yards and it plays over a river that you have to cross a bridge to get to the green. This bridge ends just before the green on the right hand side.

My father in law tees up his ball and just absolutely shanks this thing. It heads straight for the bridge, hits the hand rail and flys up into the air only to land on the green and roll to about six feet away.

Second time through the same nine he lays the sod over his tee shot but it musters enough energy to just get to the other side of the river, bounces off a rock and hops up onto the green about 20 feet away.

He walked away with par both times around after horrible tee shots both times.

Luckiest golfer I've ever played with

**meenman** · January 16, 2010

My wife teed off on about a 100 yard par 3, pulls it about 10 feet left of land into the water.

Somehow the ball bounced up and landed on the green.

Apparently the group behind us saw it and ran up to her laughing away.

My best guess is it hit a turtle just right although that can not be confirmed.

**kpaulhus** · January 16, 2010

That happened in the PGA event that Ricky Fowler tied for 2nd in...some guy hit his shot in the water and it scooped up into the rough.

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