I hate it when this happens...............LOL

[BuckeyeNut]

The 6th hole is a long par3 that plays from 220-250yds.   My tee shot was pin high, but just a tad bit to the right..........LOL

Hahahaha........when confronted with a lie like this, all I could do was laugh!!

This is the view from the tee........

I took an unplayable and saved bogey!!  not all bogeys are equal....this was a good one!!!

Golf Stories,anyone?  LOL

[boogielicious]

The 6th hole is a long par3 that plays from 220-250yds.   My tee shot was pin high, but just a tad bit to the right..........LOL

Hahahaha........when confronted with a lie like this, all I could do was laugh!!

This is the view from the tee........

I took an unplayable and saved bogey!!  not all bogeys are equal....this was a good one!!!

Golf Stories,anyone?  LOL

I lost a ball in a palm tree this January in Florida.  First time that ever happened to me.

[dave s]

Wow, that's an unfortunate bad break lie.  It happens though.

Here's another one.  We live up north and play on courses full of old hardwood trees, plenty of pines, etc.  One course had a massive oak near the corner of a dog leg left hole that snagged balls for years and years. The old oak became diseased, died and had to be removed. One guy was jumping for joy over the demise of the tree.  He tries to cut the corner, fats one off the tee and it comes down near the 3' high stump of the old oak.

Upon arrival at his ball, we find it lodged about 18" off the ground in a vine or root that had grown up and around the tree stump.  That'll teach anyone from wishing a tree to be dead!  Anyway, he knelt down, took a baseball swing hack at the ball, dislodged it and hit it deep into the woods.  Chipped back out and probably made 6 or 7.

A old tree that had snagged so many balls over the years, now dead and removed, was still able to reach up to bite at least one more player.  Tree 1 more, player 0.

The stump is gone now and that hole still requires a well-place tee ball to give up a birdie or par.

dave

[Club Rat]

Last month I hit a bad line drive tee shot out to the right towards three large pine trees. I saw it take a bounce into the second tree from the tee.

We looked around, under, and beyond the pines for a few moments and I walked to the area which I had seen it entered and looked up.

There it sat on a branch, slightly above shoulder height.

I had a good chuckle with my buddies and then hit the ball off the limb.

I had another unusual spotting of a ball resting on a small limb a week later on the 10th hole about eight feet off the ground.

The ball was literally perched on just 2 horizontal twigs, wished I had taken a photo.

Club Rat

[Mac62]

A couple weeks ago I hit my second shot on a par 5, trying to cut the corner on a dogleg hole.  The right side is lined with a few tall junipers and I saw my shot heading right towards one of them.  When we got up to the area where my ball should have landed, it was nowhere to be found.  We looked all over the place, any possible direction it could have fallen/kicked from the tree.  As a last resort, I grabbed the trunk of the juniper and shook it hard.  My ball fell out of the tree from about 12 feet up and almost hit me in the head as it dropped to the ground.  Needless to say, it cost me a stroke for an unplayable.