What's the best scrambling par you've ever made?

[Todd Ruggere]

Thought it might be fun to hear about some good recoveries and great pars.

Mine was in a tourney .

170 yard par 3.

I hit an 8 iron and it was a dead shank. To the right it was nothing but woods, except for 1 skinny telephone pole. It hit the telephone pole square and bounced down into some trees. I got to the ball and it was up against a tree and i had to hit it lefty . I turned my wedge around and i bounced it through about 20 trees. I swear it had eyes. Then i knocked it in from about 75 yards out for a routine par. My friend said, "Nice par, no room for comment on the score card"

[runyans]

I have had more scrambling pars that I would like, but I had a pretty good one my last round.

We had a pretty good bet going into the 6th hole. It's a 311 yard par 4 and plays way downhill with a small green and a creek in the front. During the summer they really let the rough grow out so a miss to the left of the green if you are going for it really makes it a tough up and down. However in the winter, with the rough dormant, you can go at it all day long and a miss left wont hurt.

I hit a 3W and instead of a miss to the left, I snap hook it off the planet OB. Re tee thinking I am out of the hole and then knock it to about 2 feet. Made the putt for par and pushed the hole. The reactions I got out of the group were better than the par.

[Gioguy21]

club championship last year, 15th hole, par 5, 574 yards. tight fairway with sandtraps both left and right, and about 15 feet after the end of the traps on the left side...starts a line of young maples that runs the rest of the fairway...hit my tee shot to just infront of the trap, making me hit a 9 iron back into the fairway at 145 out. pin was tucked back right with a trap infront of it...hit my 9 iron again, bounced on the fringe and tucked into the trap. hit my sandwedge to a foot. thank you sir get me away from this hole.

[Mrd19abhs]

Mine was this last tuesdays. Popped up my drive about 100 yards left me about 250 to the front of green decied to lay up to about 85 yards which normally is a nice full 60* hit the shot a little further than intended and had 75 yrds to the pin. This normally is a horrible yardage for me. Decided to hit a little pw up there ended up hitting the pin and sat 2foot away for a nice little tap in par.

[TheGeekGolfer]

Par-5 earlier this year, semi-dry day in January.  Pulled my drive into the adjacent fairway, hit it solid, though.  Good lie in the 'other' fairway and have a good angle to the hole, decide what the heck and go for it.  Pushed my 2nd shot right into the lake that runs short and right of the green.  Drop on a severe side-hill lie, ball about 18 inches below my feet, about 45-50 yds out.  After dropping I think, crud, I realized I could've gone back to a point behind the hazard and in line with my entry to hazard and hole and dropped at about 115yds.  It would have been a flatter lie, but in the rough.  Oh well, I already dropped, I have to hit this shot.  I take a few practice swings, making sure I stay with the slope.  I aim way left to accommodate the slope and hit it over the front bunker to about 4 feet and make the putt.

[Chilli Dipper]

The sixth hole at Heritage Golf Links in Tucker, GA, (or maybe the fifteenth; I always seem to start on the opposite nine when I play there) is a mid-length dogleg right par-4, with the drive carrying a lake onto a plateau fairway and the green closely bordered on the right by a gully that feeds into said lake. One time, I overhooked an approach from a hanging lie that bounced off the green and into the gully. When I reached the green, I saw my ball sitting up in the weeds about 20 feet inside the hazard; rather than taking a penalty shot, I hacked out of the gully with a wedge to within tap-in range. I was looping with a member that day, and he said that was the first time he'd ever seen someone get up-and-down from that hazard.

[clubchamp]

I have 2 I will never forgot...

Oueenstown Harbor-  Hole 10, Hooked my drive into the woods, punch out hit a tree, hit a 20 yard hook from about 180 into the greenside bunker, holed the bunker shot for par.

Winding Brook Golf Course- Hole 11, Easy par 5 but I drove dead under a pine tree, punched out, tried hit a 3i from 200 off a down slope stuck in the creek(I was in high school so I thought I could hit any shot), actually found the ball in the weeds next to the creek hacked it out to about 20 yards and holed it from there for par.

[TaylorMadeTaylor]

Happened at my home course last year: pushed my tee shot (3 wood) into a lake, took a drop and was faced with a 180 yard shot around a dogleg with the ball well below my feet in thick rough, luckily the hole was dogleg right, so the fade lie didn't hurt so much. I grabbed a 5 iron and thwacked it out around the dogleg to the back of the green, then was faced with an impossible put of about 50 feet with retardedly insane amount of elevation change (big valley halfway to the hole) which breaks like four times. Read it as best I could and hit it hoping for the best, letting loose a HUGE fist pump as it rammed into the back of the hole. Still can see it going in if I close my eyes, and still can here my Friend (who I was playing against) yelling "are you f**king kidding me?" when he found out he lost the match.

[Fourputt]

Do people really try and remember this stuff?  In my 35 years of playing golf on a regular basis, I've saved so many pars in so many different ways that if I had recorded every one I could write a 1000 page book about it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I get the feeling that most of these threads are started by relatively new players who don't yet have that much to remember.

I can't even remember my first eagle (I do remember my last eagle ), or my first birdie.  My first ace I do remember, and the second one too.  I can recall a few other notable shots for one reason or another, but just the specific shot, not the score which resulted from it.

I guess I'm just not that impressed with myself... I didn't even preserve the balls from my 2 aces...

[Fairway_CY]

  Fourputt said:

Originally Posted by Fourputt

I didn't even preserve the balls from my 2 aces...

WHAT?!?!

Isn't that illegal?!

Made my first ace last year.  I've got the ball, a plaque from Callaway, a plaque from the course and a trophy my wife had made for me to store the ball inside.  I figure it took me 19 years to record that ace... it may never happen again... so I'm going to enjoy it!

Anyway... I tend to agree.  I can't remember every par I've ever saved, but I do remember a lot of shots.

My first birdie was from a bunker about 15 feet below the green... I skulled it, it hit hard into the bank and then took off.  I didn't see it, but I heard it hit the pin and every body scream 'WHOA!'.  They all said if it didn't hit the pin, it would have run into the woods behind the green.

I don't have an eagle yet (I don't count the ace).  I've come close on a few driveable par 4's but I don't remember too many times having an opportunity on par 5's.

My favorite par save from this past season was 2 holes after my ace.  I made the ace on the 12th hole.  The 13th always gives me fits... but I managed to play it perfectly for par.  And then the 14th it a long par 3 over a ravine.  The carry isn't that bad... only like 175 to carry but the hole is about 210 and it's totally dead left.  Of course I yanked my tee shot left but it stayed JUST out of the hazard.  I had about 35 yards from there to the pin in the back-right corner.  I popped it up exactly to the spot I was aiming on the green and it rolled to 3 feet and I tapped in for par.  I then finished the round bogey - bogey - bogey - bogey for my first ever round under 90.  If it was a single week later, I'd have qualified for our club's Players Championship, but I was still in a verification period so even though I posted the low round of the day, I was ineligible to claim the win.

Still... a hell of a day for me.

CY

[doublesuited77]

last round of the season.

400 yard par 4 Dogleft left with a stream on the right.   Push my driver into a river.  Take a drop onto a downhill lie and push a 8-iron pin high into a 14 inch pile of dry leaves.    Played the shot like a bunker shot and blasted out-- 1 hop and in for par.

[evan01]

A flop shot that phil would be proud of! Long par 4 terrible drive somewhere around the ladies t i think! Hit a bomb of a 3 wood next shot and flew the green. I could only see my partners head from down below and back of the green. Opened the 60* vokey and let that sucker fly! I think it went 30' above the green dropped 8' above the hole and roled sweetly in for the par. Sadly we only pushed on the hole.

[tsdnorton]

Semi-short Par 5.

First shot went OB left (hit some type of hard surface near a hazard and bounced right thru the white sticks.

So dropping 2, hitting 3 off the tee box.

CRUSH it down the fairway.

4th shot right into the right side bunker. :(

5th shot.. Flop it right out of the sand, takes 2 bumps and drops in the hole for par.

Crazy up and down hole to record a solid 74 :P lol

This was 07/10

[steelernation]

  clubchamp said:

Originally Posted by clubchamp

I have 2 I will never forgot...

Oueenstown Harbor-  Hole 10, Hooked my drive into the woods, punch out hit a tree, hit a 20 yard hook from about 180 into the greenside bunker, holed the bunker shot for par.

Winding Brook Golf Course- Hole 11, Easy par 5 but I drove dead under a pine tree, punched out, tried hit a 3i from 200 off a down slope stuck in the creek(I was in high school so I thought I could hit any shot), actually found the ball in the weeds next to the creek hacked it out to about 20 yards and holed it from there for par.

Thats cool I just played there(qtown) on the same day as that pathetic display of coaching by the Steelers (sans Dick).  I played the front nine lake and back nine river.  Loved it.  Although the 10 on River is all I recall.

My best scramble for a par involves 2 seperate occasions on par 4's, both drives went hazard and then I was able to chip or putt in for par after a re=tee.

[Gerald]

Hmm mine was in a tournament also,

Last year in a single figure hc tournament, it was like a Scottish summer day (lots of rain and cold) at the seventeenth hole, a par 4 of about 460 yds.

I pushed my teeshot to the right in the woods, I found my ball and the only thing I could do is playing it back to the fairway, but it was to short and ended up in a very wet fairway bunker, from there it was just simply impossible to go for the green, I got it out but it ended about 80 yds short of the hole in deep rough ..... pfffff what a nightmare ...... I took out a brandnew 52* Mizuno MP T-11 gap wedge, had to go over a hill (blind shot) to the green with at most 15 ft. of green between the edge and the hole .......

It went up in the air, flew over the hill, landed about 10 ft short from the hole and rolled straight into the hole ....... my competitors were flabbergasted ...... what a way to save par !!!!

The worst is that from behind the hill I never saw it happen myself .....

[holeinon3]

There have been many but one that is coming to mind was a few months ago at my home course.  400 ish par 4.  Hook my second shot into the water, move up to about 80 yards and hole out for a 4.

[photobob]

Short par 4, pull a decent drive left into light rough just short of a stand of tall trees. Good line to the green, but some high overhanging limbs mean I really can't lob a wedge into the green.  So I punch a 9 iron that just catches the lowest limb and sends the ball right back to me, about ten fee left of where I stand.  OK, let's try that punch again with a seven.  Top a little dribbler through the grass...

I'm still 30 yards from the front of the two-tiered green, with the pin up on the top, about 60 feet.  This time I drop to a 5 iron, hoping to drop it just short of the green, with enough left to climb to the top tier.  It hit the fringe, checked up, rolled up the hill, made a gentle right turn and dropped in.

My playing partners were all playing the right side and didn't see me hacking away.  When the ball dropped in, they went nuts thinking I'd just eagled the hole.  Yeah, I 'fessed up....

[ryebread442]

I've scrambled for par a few times, but the strangest one came from the last round I played. My friend and I decided to play one day when we were excited by the fact that the temperature would make it to 40 degrees. It was the sixth hole, a short par-5 that doglegged at near the end. I pulled my first shot left after hitting it off the heel. My next shot was a high, short shot, but it still left me only about 140 yards out (they only had one set of tees placed that day due to winter conditions). My next shot would have been perfect, but the cold, hard ground shot my ball right by the pin and under a tree. My 4th shot was headed right for the sand until it bounced out and allowed me to putt from the rough. I sank my par and walked to the next tee box grinning the whole way.