Most Crooked Drive Ever

[Shanks A Million]

Here's another. How far out of bounds have you hit it? When I was a high handicap, with the usual slice, I hit some absolute bombs that never even hit a part of the golf course. Not only did they fly out, they flew over the houses on the course, and into the streets, a few even left the neighborhood the course is built in!

My worst was at a drivable par 4, I hit the ball about 240 yards forward, and 100 yards left. On a par 5, I hit two 3 woods in a row, the first one went 200 yards forward, and 115 yards to the right! The second one did the same thing! So, to repeat that, the furthest I've ever hit it offline was with a 3 wood, not a driver!

[wrx_junki]

The furthest I went wayward was two fairways over and roll into the rough. Had a friend slice it over three fairways. He hovers his club head about a foot away from the ball so his drives are pretty wild.

[nuck81]

My Balls only play straight. They are too scared not too.

[senorchipotle]

last year while playing with a hooter's tour member, a nationwide tour member, and a college golfer at the country club in college station where the aTm team practices, i hit one of the worst drives of my life. i mean it was terrible. we chose a best ball hole and i was trying to swing out of my shoes, which i literally almost did. my ball went straight about 150 yards then peeled off to the right two whole fairways. by some miracle, i had a straight shot 250 yards to the pin. pulled out my 3 iron and put it 230 right up to the fringe. chipped up and tapped in for par. it ended up being one of my best rounds of the year, except for that shot.

[Ash1974]

Funny this thread should come up, as a few weeks back on the 17th (runs level with the 18th with a road and the club house in-between) we had a wild wind blowing from behind so I thought I would try and muller one as far down as possible, of course I tee'd it up high and off my left foot small toe and swung at it like a baboon, the result was I came right round myself and sent what I like to call "a 60° driver" wildly left off the tee, over the road and the roof of the club house and somewhere near the 18th fairway. When we played the 18th I found the ball in the rough by the 1st tee, which runs parallel with the 18th, wind carried the ball about 100 yards forward and around 80 yards left lol.

I was very impressed, but not with 3 off the tee as the result was double bogie

[melchior]

Heh, this summer I got fitted for a driver so I was out trying a bunch of different ones with different shafts. Well, let's just say one didn't agree with me.

I straight hooked it over the side netting of the driving range, hit a cart path and bounced into a delivery truck. Probably 80 yards left of where I was aiming... The local pro just said "oops" ^_^

[BostonSully]

To go back to when I first started playing. Me and my friends worked a course/condo facility. We were playing the 7th a par4, when the two wives of the pres. and vp of the board pull up and watch us tee off. We've all literally played golf like twice.

So I tee up my 3wood and BAM rope it right at the first set of condos about 150 out and 50 left of the fairway. Its a good thing I crushed this ball because it carried up and over the condo's then flew the street then over another set of condos and onto the 6th fairway probably a solid like 200 yards left and 100 yards forward Lol!

[saevel25]

Mine was probably out of bounds, cant remember if there was white stakes, but you couldn't get the ball back.. The shot started off at probably 45 degrees left, went straight out then hooked left, the ultimate pull hook. This sucker almost hit a house that had to be 200 yards left of the fairway, it was impressive. My co-workers were shocked ;b

My biggest slice probably goes 75 yards right if i really get one going.

[jamo]

I don't know if this is really my most crooked drive ever, but it's up there and it has a story behind it. Alright, I was playing in a tournament at Hopkinton Country Club in MA, and I was on the 7th hole. It's a normal length par 5 with OB right and tress left which separates it from the 4th hole and, if you go where I was, the 3rd hole. So to play the hole you have options off the tee. you can try to bomb a driver over the dogleg left, but the landing area is small and if you go too long/right you can find the OB. I usually ended up hitting hybrid. Because there is a huge downslope I could usually go hybrid-hybrid to get to the green if I had to, but I normally went hybird-8 iron-wedge.

This day we were playing match play and I had already won the 9 hole match, so the rest of my score didn't matter. I took out the driver and tried to bomb it, cutting the trees on the left and potentially giving me a short iron in. Unfortunately I hit it way left, over the trees, over the 4th fairway, over the trees separating the 4th and the 3rd, and squarely into the third fairway, I have to say, I couldn't do that again if I aimed right at the 3rd fairway. It was a majestic and high shot that just kept going left.

So I got to my ball at the 3rd fairway and just took hybrid, which would hit it high enough to get over the trees and back somewhere near the 7th hole. I ended up hooking the crap out of this one too, but it was so high and purely struck it was going right for the green. It ended up hitting the green and sticking, giving me a 25 footer for eagle. I two putter for the most ridiculous birdie ever.

[DonW]

I hit off the 17th tee with driver and sliced it so far it cleared the 2nd fairway, which ran parallel, and landed on the fringe of the first fairway. As I'm leaving the tee box with my bag one of the crew sees my ball laying in the rough as he's driving the mower down the first fairway looks around and only seeing me on the 17th pockets my ball and drives away. When he sees me playing from the spot he grabbed my ball he runs it back over apologizing like crazy and gives me another he had just found, I can't blame him as I didn't think anyone could have sliced a ball that much. I sliced so bad it was going away from the 17th green when it came down, checking my GPS I was only 30 yards closer to the hole than I was at the tee box but had two sets of trees and rough to play through to get back to the proper fairway.

[newtogolf]

This combines with my most embarrassing moment playing golf. On first drive off back 9 which is to the right of the lunch area I hit a horrible slice that bounced off the roof of the building, and onto a table people where people were eating lunch. Needless to say, they didn't find it amusing.

[BostonSully]

This combines with my most embarrassing moment playing golf. On first drive off back 9 which is to the right of the lunch area I hit a horrible slice that bounced off the roof of the building, and onto a table people where people were eating lunch. Needless to say, they didn't find it amusing.

Hahaha "Excuse me whats the ruling on a ball submerged in your soup sir?"

[saevel25]

HAHA, nice... I like that one.. I almost did that, club house is like 20 yards to the right of the green, i cut mine and it was about 3 feet from one hopping the cart path into the out door seating for there restaurant.. Oh that would have been funny..

[The Road Dog]

This is hilarious, Last week during a round with my usual crew. my wild as hell swinging son-in-law fired a driver off the tee at the 8th hole (dogleg right) at Buffalo Creek GC in Palmetto, Fl. to get to the FW from the mens tee you have to carry about 190 yards over a lake. The lake also swings right of the tee box and the tee for the 7th hole is on the other side about 100 yards heading the opposite direction from the 8th. Well Son-in-Law gets it in his head that he can fade one over the lake into the FW and possibly closer to the green. He takes the strongest swing I've ever seen almost coming out of his shoes and the ball goes out about 50 yards and turns right. it kept turning over the lake to the tee box of the 7th and into the FW. A complete u turn about 100 yards right and 30 yards back behind us. There was a group on the tee and they were impressed and loudly so. He didn't look in their direction or mention going back for the ball. I wisely kept quiet and proceeded with my round.

[sean_miller]

This is hilarious, Last week during a round with my usual crew. my wild as hell swinging son-in-law fired a driver off the tee at the 8th hole (dogleg right) at Buffalo Creek GC in Palmetto, Fl. to get to the FW from the mens tee you have to carry about 190 yards over a lake. The lake also swings right of the tee box and the tee for the 7th hole is on the other side about 100 yards heading the opposite direction from the 8th. Well Son-in-Law gets it in his head that he can fade one over the lake into the FW and possibly closer to the green. He takes the strongest swing I've ever seen almost coming out of his shoes and the ball goes out about 50 yards and turns right. it kept turning over the lake to the tee box of the 7th and into the FW. A complete u turn about 100 yards right and 30 yards back behind us. There was a group on the tee and they were impressed and loudly so. He didn't look in their direction or mention going back for the ball. I wisely kept quiet and proceeded with my round.

Wow, I've hit some crazy hooks and slices in my day, but never lost ground relative to the tee box - relative to the target? Oh yeah!

More than once back in the wooden head and wound ball days, I've started a ball down the right rough and hoped it would stay short of the trees on the left . . . on the far side of the adjacent fairway.

[tristanhilton85]

I've hit a 2 fairway slice before... more than once actually.... I never actually took the time to figure out how many yards off line, but I'd say that some of them went more sideways than they went forward.

On a related note:
I grew up in a country club. Our house wasn't actually on the course but a side street near it. I'd say our backyard was about 150-200 yds from the center of the fairway on the first hole and we would occasionally find balls back there.

[Shanks A Million]

I once hit one way up in the air, not quite a pop up, but a really high push, and it landed right on some guy's screened in patio while he was out there. Then this asshat has the audacity to stare at me and ask me to apologize. I don't mind saying, "oops, sorry," but if you buy a house 200 yards down the right side of the fairway on a par 5 with water left, what the hell do you expect?

[sean_miller]

I once hit one way up in the air, not quite a pop up, but a really high push, and it landed right on some guy's screened in patio while he was out there. Then this asshat has the audacity to stare at me and ask me to apologize. I don't mind saying, "oops, sorry," but if you buy a house 200 yards down the right side of the fairway on a par 5 with water left, what the hell do you expect?

I once hit a golf ball with an aluminum bat after a ball game. It went out of the park - literally over the school and hit the front door of a house a block away. The guy came out and looked around - he had no idea what happened. I bet there was a dent, but we booked it outta there! We were young(ish).