What is your worst or most unusual cart path shot ever?

[formula428]

Per the title, what is your worst or most unusual cart path shot ever? For me, it was a Par 3, about 197 to pin from blue tees. The cart path on this hole is on the left, fairly close to the green. I got my 3H and played it the distance perfect but pulled it about 15y from the pin, right onto the cart path. The ball took about 6 bounces all the way down the path until resting on the slope of the next tee box. Turns out it ended up being about 70 yards past the hole!

[AggieGolfer13]

Hole 1 on my home course. Its a 333 yd Par 4 that goes uphill at about 30 degrees with the cart path running on the right side of the fairway. I hit about 250 yd shot.  It bounced right in front of a tree on the right side of the cart path, bounced off the tree back onto the cart path and rolled all the way back down to the ladies tees. I ended up having a 20 yard drive.

[Double Bogey]

Hole 13 of my home course is a par 5 with the cart path running down the right side.  With my drive safely in the fairway, I take out a 4H to safely lay up to 80 yard so I can approach the elevated green with a full 56*.  I block my 4H and it skims a tree on the right just enough to allow the ball to catch the path twice and finally the curb which kicks it left on to the front of the green.  That would equate to a 260yd (uphill) 4H

For what it is worth... I still 3 putt for a par.

[Mattplusness]

I honestly don't think anything too strange has happened off the cart path for me. I have hit it a few times and it bounces it left or right or too far and went into a hazard, but nothing crazy.

[sean_miller]

Hit a push right of our # 3 green which then leaps sideways to the cart path beside the #4 teebox. So much for a good start for a change. Took a drop on the #4 tee box and just tried to throw it high over the bunker. Holed it shot for a 3.

Same hole in league night. Pushed a fairway bunker shot way right. It hits a tree and ends up on the path. Took a drop. Pitched to about 1 foot and the  hole was conceded by my opponent.. I might play to that path on purpose now - usually get a bogey (or worse) on that hole.

[WUTiger]

The worst is the usual: I push or a pull an approach shot, and the cart path takes a chunk out of the ball. Most of my balls which end up damaged get done in by cart paths, not my club.

[ejimsmith]

i can't claim this one as my own, though i got a nice laugh watching it happen.   just last week, short, uphill par 3 (110y), with a lake in front.  playing partner hits his tee shot fat, and it drops into the middle of the lake.  a few cuss words, etc.. and he tees up again.  this time he's got the distance, but pulls it a bit left towards the cart path.  because of the uphill, when it hits the cart path, it bounces about 20 feet up and backwards, hits the cart path again, pops up another 10 feet, still backwards and into the lake.   he at least saw the humor in it...

[darkhunter139]

One time on a 350 yard par 4 I nailed a bad drive right and it nailed the cart path and went around the corner so I figured it bounced into the woods and was gone. Spent a whole looking for it and my playing partner was like who's ball is that 5 yards from the green? Amazingly it was mine, no clue what happened after it hit that cart path.

[Jimdangles]

A wierd dog leg left at a course I never played before. Need a 220 yard shot or so to get around the corner. Sky ball a hybrid. bounces on a curvy cart path, then bounces on the next part of the "S" cart path and almost got around the corner. I ended up still having a blind second shot but I thought it was pretty fortunate.

[Chas]

Only a couple of weeks ago at one of the pricier courses in town, my first time there, first hole, straight par 4 of about 380 yd with cart path on the right.  Hit one of my better drives (unusual for me off the first tee), dead straight, ends up on right side of fairway and about 110 from the pin (elevated green).  Feeling good about my game so far.  Can you spell "hubris"?

BUT but but, there's a massive great tree between me and the green for Pee'sake - you really want to be fairway left I now appreciate.  What the heck did they plant that tree THERE for I'm thinking (too late .....). Should then have played a low shot under branches to a position just short of the green with chance of up and down for par, bogie at worst.  Instead of which I try to clear the tree.  Hit a nice strong and clean PW right at the pin but the ball just catches the top of the tree, drops down loudly hitting many branches and onto the cart path to the right, makes a huge bounce backwards (towards me) and rolls back down the fairway to about 20 yards from my blasted feet.

Ridiculous.  I felt like Phil M. on the 13th at Torrey Pines a few years ago but we won't go there .... One of the guys I'm playing with, a nice young fellow who plays off of 4 .5, says to me, "I've played this course for many years and have never seen that happen before."

Double bogey.

Ended up with 2 doubles, 10 bogies, 9 pars and 1 birdie - a disappointing round.  When will I learn .......

[onesome]

Not unusual but without doubt my longest personal drive bar none, 18th hole at my former course has a road alongside the cart path, I hit my drive down the right side and bounced twice on the cart path and then landed in the bed of a pickup truck going the same way, I figure that drive to be at least 25,000 miles by now.