What's Your Favorite Shot?

[3Mulligans]

What one shot, when you hit it just right, makes you feel so good that you're tempted to walk off the course on that one high note?

 

For me, it's the 3-wood on my second shot when I'm about 210 out and I hit it long and straight right by the hole. Something about hitting it off the ground and watching it pick up momentum and then seemingly suspend in the air and drop right by the cup. I hit a couple of those today and I felt like heading straight to the clubhouse and leaving.

[Patch]

When close enough, my flop shot is my favorite. Hardly ever miss hit that shot. 

[saevel25]

Nothing like a pured mid iron shot. 

[Golfingdad]

Not a particular shot, but it's the latest one that goes perfectly as planned.

Yesterday it was a pured PW that I hit from about 140 right at my target - center of green - that drew a couple of yards towards the pin and then checked even further left to the hole.  Finished about 6 feet immediately behind the pin.

When you envision the ideal shot, and then actually execute it, it's such a great feeling. :)

If I was forced to pick a particular shot, then I'd choose a mid/short iron where I take a less than 100% swing and manage to hit it the exact right distance.  That's a great feeling.

[DrvFrShow]

I had two last season, and both were similar. 

1) Short Par 5 - I'd hit a very long drive into the rough under a tree on the left and had one shot at the green - a full flat 8 iron punch hook. I nailed it 140 yds onto the green and left myself a putt I sunk for an eagle. 

2) During a tournament on a par 4 I put myself in a worse predicament and played a risk reward shot between two trees and under two branches with a choked up hard punch shot with my 6 iron about 140 yds. played back just far enough in my stance that it had enough backspin on it that it stuck when it hit the green. Birdie. I was playing catch up so why play conservative?

Both went perfectly as planned. It feels real good when things go that way. 

Forced to pick a particular shot? A lob shot about 50-55 yds. with about a 9 to 3 swing.

[9wood]

I really enjoy a chip shot from off the green that gets holed for birdie, especially when I am simply trying to get my chip shot close enough to the hole to make par

[iacas]

I too don't have a particular shot. I like a putt that feels good, tracks, and goes in just as much as a 5-iron that comes off as planned and a drive that carries forever down the fairway.

[The Boss]

Nothing beats hitting a 2-iron blade on the screws and hit the center of the green 240 yards away.

The Boss

[Dan42nepa]

Old school bump and run that carries 1/3 of the way in the air and 2/3 roll.

 

[phillyk]

I enjoy hitting the big hooks or slices underneath and/or around trees.  I had an occasion recently, where I had 150yds or so to go with a tree in front.  I had to hit a low hook around the tree.  It was just perfectly executed, around the tree and rolled up to the raised green to 2ft away for a tap in birdie.  Not that I want to intentionally give myself those types of shots, but I seem to hit intentional hooks/slices fairly well.  And just like @The Boss said, I really like the perfectly hit 2-iron.

[bkuehn1952]

16 hours ago, The Boss said:

Nothing beats hitting a 2-iron blade on the screws and hit the center of the green 240 yards away.

Showing your age.  It has been a while since the inserts on woods were screwed in.

I am with @saevel25 , a well struck iron feels great.

[Marty2019]

My favorite shot is with my driver.   I recently bought a used Taylormade R1 driver, and when I hit that thing well, when I hit it squarely, it feels soooo good.  

I actually managed to shape one of my drives the other day.   I had a dogleg right, and I took a nice swing and let the club head lag a little, so I hit a beautiful fade right around the dog leg right to the limit of how far you can hit it without going in the marsh, the most perfect drive possible.   No real long, but perfectly placed. 

And then the other day on a different hole, I hit a 250 yard drive right down the middle.   That's about 20-30 yards longer than my usual drive.   What a feeling when I take a swing and really spank that ball hard. 

Why can't I do that all the time? 

 

[Dave325]

A well hit driver off a tee box with a narrow, tight fairway. When the ball screams off the sweetspot and goes high and long straight down the middle of the fairway.  And you get that feel that says.... "I did everything perfectly right".... Ahhhhh... Soooooo sweet!!!

[dave s]

Holing wedge shots from the fairway.  Probably done this 15-20 times in my long, painful golf career.  Three times for eagles on par-5 holes, several for birdies on long par 4s, the rest for pars on holes shaping up to be bogie, double or perhaps even 'other' on the card.

Also chip-ins and hole-outs from around the green. Either way, love to see them go in for me occasionally.

dave

[DaveP043]

My favorite shot is the one that brings an end to the "danger" when I'm having a really good round.  On my home course, its clearing the last water hazard right in front of the 18th green.  My only 69, it was driving successfully past the water on the last hole at Talmore in Southern Pines.  It doesn't mean the work is over, but the potential for a catastrophe is, and I could start to relax and enjoy the day's success.  Up to that point, I'm doing everything in my power to ignore my score and play each shot as it comes.

[MrDC]

4i, the longest iron I use, I love the sound it makes when pure, and the ball flight starts so low and keeps rising and rising, such a thing of beauty.

[Fourputt]

On 1/24/2016 at 7:55 PM, Golfingdad said:

Not a particular shot, but it's the latest one that goes perfectly as planned.

Yesterday it was a pured PW that I hit from about 140 right at my target - center of green - that drew a couple of yards towards the pin and then checked even further left to the hole.  Finished about 6 feet immediately behind the pin.

When you envision the ideal shot, and then actually execute it, it's such a great feeling. :)

If I was forced to pick a particular shot, then I'd choose a mid/short iron where I take a less than 100% swing and manage to hit it the exact right distance.  That's a great feeling.

Bingo!!!!  This is exactly what I was going to say.  My favorite is the latest one that did what I wanted it to do (obviously that doesn't include tap-in putts).  Thanks GD for the assistance.

[rehmwa]

Lagavulin 16 year.  A little ice, nothing else

 

(my favorite golf shot is usually anything that goes as planned when a little shot shaping is also required)