What's your best shot with the worst results?

[damoc1]

I was recently playing golf with my brother who had sliced his 1st tee shot behind a tree. He still had at least 200 odd yards to go to the green and me thinking he would take the sensible approach and just pop it back on the fairway and hit a untroubled shot in, he decided to go for the green!

He hit a great 5 wood from a bad lie with a touch of draw that sailed and landed no more than 3 feet from the pin, as i gave him a round of applause for the great shot I looked back and had seen he had wrapped his 5 wood around the tree and snapped it in 2!!!!

what a pity, a great shot with a bad outcome!!

[supah]

Wow, harsh :P Hope it wasnt a new and expensive club!

[GolfnGriff]

This would probably qualify as the worst shot with the best results...

Last summer I was playing with a group of non-golfers. Got paired with a couple guys just having their annual golf outing. They were a riot... On the 18th tee one of the guys hits his tee shot straight right, over the fence, into the back yard of a nice house with a pool. The ball lands in the pool and scares the living crap out of a poor, innocent, sunbathing woman who happens to be topless. When the ball hit the water she jumps up "probably from a nap" and screams "Holy S#!%" then looks around. It was then she must have realized the "breeze" from the waist up and ran inside the house. Of course the guys yelled "we didn't mean to scare you honey... come back out!!!"

[Jeepthrills]

Best Shot w/ worst result: I was playing with some guys from work and we were comming up the 18th. There were a few skins on the line and I hammered my drive on a short par 4. The ball lands in the right/center of the fairway and jumps 90 degrees right. It rolled into a pond and out of play. We got up to where it had hit and there was a sprinkler head that was not all the way closed.

Bad Shot w/ Lucky result: I was playing with my brother at the Black Bear in Vanderbilt Michigan. It's a solid course about 10 minutes North of Gaylord. Like many new courses it is built amongst condos. I hit a big pull that hit the roof of a condo and then landed in the parking lot. It bounced between a BMW and a Lexus and went 50' in the air. From there it just missed a Navigator before landing safely in the side yard of one of the condos. Needless to say, I hit a provisional and quickly picked up my stray.

[HappyGilmore134]

Playing at St Andrews Early this year greens very firm on the 17th hole the road hole hit good drive and had about 175 into the green wind in so i hit a low punch shot about 50 short and look 2 be going close and BAM hit a god damn rock and ended up over the road and against the WALL nice took 6 and shot 71

[evossman]

I was playing the Hawaii Country Club and there is a dog leg right par four goofy hole that goes up a hill, around a corner and down a hill. You need to sky the ball over a bunch of trees to the right or put the ball to the 150 marker between two groups of trees.

I decided to take out the driver and go for the green. I hit a great fade up, over, and around the trees and put the ball 20-30 yards from the green. That's where the trouble is. The green is a gently sloping green back towards the fairway with a huge slope about 10 yards off the front of the green. Where was the pin? Front half right in the middle of the slope. Rediculous.

I put the ball about 3 feet above the hole, and it proceeded to roll down the slope to the front fringe. I then had about 10 feet for a birdie putt. Missed it, about a foot past the hole, then it rolled back down the hill. Next putt went about the same place. Then the next stopped about an inch short (no foolin') and rolled back down. I finally made the putt getting off the green with an 8!

[cdriver]

Best Shot with worst result.... I hit a 5 wood from about 220 to a par 5 with an elevated green. The ball was absolutely tracking the stick all the way in - I could already see the eagle putt rolling into the hole. Then, it landed just at the front edge of the green.....directly on top of the sprinkler head.... and proceeded to bound 20 yards over the green into the "Valley of Death" as we referred to this particular place. The recovery from there requires a wide open lob wedge and feverent prayers as you swing your guts out to get through the rough. Needless to say, I went from eagle to double in a heartbeat.

[Rafcin]

I managed to hit the flag stick (from 150 or so), hard enough to catapult off the green into a hazard. Missed by inch would've settle down (maybe even spin) few feet past the cup

[cdriver]

I managed to hit the flag stick (from 150 or so), hard enough to catapult off the green into a hazard. Missed by inch would've settle down (maybe even spin) few feet past the cup

Now that is truly nasty... I have seen it happen, but not to me.

[cireyamel]

I have to second the hitting the stiff part of the flag and ricocheting off to trouble.

But my second is playing in a scramble and being 285-yards or so out on a long par-5, downhill, and hitting a driver.

It was a great shot.

That plunked the guy putting near the hole in the leg!

DOH!

Honestly I didn't think I could reach it. But it was a scramble and we already had a ball within a hundred yards, so I got to swing away.

They were cool about it, though, and knew I got lucky.

But it is still my most out of my arse driver off the fairway I've ever hit, and probably ever well.

cy