Best Shot of the Week

[BuckeyeNut]

I only played once this week so this was my best shot of the week!!!!!..........Par5:  Not a great drive or ideal layup............it's all about the "Money Shot"......the approach, right?

The approach......I was faced with a deep narrow green sitting at a 45 degree angle from my direction of approach:  The green has serious uphill/sidehill slope to a point, and then it slopes steeply back to the back-left corner.   The pin was back-left and I had to carry a 10ft deep bunker to go at the pin.  Flying to the back corner and getting close is tough with the downhill slope in the back!!......87yds to the pin.    The shot....a beautiful 70% trajectory 56% wedge was sent 10ft right of the pin.  It hit the bank in the green and trickled left.......to about 2'................draino.   Shot of the day for sure!!....because the wind was bowling pretty hard!!

[rehmwa]

Saturday - Hole 10 (short par 5 where I sliced my drive off to the adjacent fairway to a perfect lie)

Great Lie - 237 from the pin.  Mounds in front of me and a tree just barely blocking the right half of the green.  Green side bunkers center and right in front (and deeeeeeeeeep).  "go for it" shot is a big high fade.

Guys in the fairway stopping to watch me shoot - great,,,, just great.

2H - fade swing.  Barely pulled it left a little but fading nicely.  NICE contact and sound and feel.  Ball flied right at the left edge and fading.  Carried just short and rolled on and over to the back apron.  Best shot of the round.

Unfortunately, the green is very sloped back to the fairway and I have an eagle putt through the apron and then severe roll down past the cup.  I make the 10 footer back up the hill to save the bird - mostly luck on that putt but I'll take it. 

[bkuehn1952]

In an otherwise undistinguished round last Friday, I did manage to plop a wedge to 4-5 feet on the par 5 10th and rolled in the birdie putt.  Right now turf conditions are not particularly golf friendly with soggy to saturated fairways and spongy, slow, bumpy greens.  But we don't care, we are playing winter golf!

[9wood]

Had several really nice pitch and chip shots yesterday but probably the best one was a chip shop that was in a lie about 10 feet off the green and another 25 feet to go to the pin. I chipped it using my 7 iron in attempt to get par on this par 5 hole. I thought the ball was going in but it looped around the rim of the hole to the right and came to rest 1 foot away from the pin to give me a par on this tough par 5 hole.

[Dave2512]

We have two holes on the front, 2 and 6, that are basically my undoing. Not uncommon I double one or both and it's usually the difference in whether I break 80 or not. It's got to be a head thing because the miss on these holes comes out of nowhere typically hit a low hook that finds the hazard on 2 and OB on 6.

It's silly as chit because both holes have adequate room to fly it out right and stay away from the left. But my miss is more left than right with anything longer than an iron so I built a driving iron to keep it in play on trouble holes. Saturday I hit a nice high draw 237 that left my a knock down 9i from the green on 2. Sadly my rib issued flared and I couldn't continue after the 5th but if I can hit shots like that often my scoring troubles will be minimized.

[9wood]

4 hours ago, 9wood said:

Had several really nice pitch and chip shots yesterday but probably the best one was a chip shop that was in a lie about 10 feet off the green and another 25 feet to go to the pin. I chipped it using my 7 iron in attempt to get birdie on this par 5 hole. I thought the ball was going in but it looped around the rim of the hole to the right and came to rest 1 foot away from the pin to give me a par on this tough par 5 hole.

Made a correction

[Valleygolfer]

Got out to a soggy track today and I was replaying a few holes after the initial 18. I hooked my drive on the 16th to the left rough. I was left with 92 yards from the hole with some slight wind from left to right. I took my 55 degree wedge and knocked at 15" for my birdie tap in.

[davechen]

I played the back 9 at Falls Road GC yesterday.   On #17, a 345 yard par 4, I hit a mediocre drive, leaving me 148 yards to a back pin.  I hit a 7 iron that left me with a tap in birdie putt.  

[Hardspoon]

Technically not this week anymore, but...my first swing on an actual golf course in nearly 6 months was a perfect drive, right side of the fairway, 245 yards or so.  That felt damn good.

[9wood]

One really good as well as memorable shot for me was a shot where my ball was lying 15 yds off the green to the right and pin high. I took my 56 degree wedge and pitched up onto the green and the ball rested 18 inches from the cup.

[Lugowskins]

Had my first eagle! Last Thursday on a straight par 4 after my drive I'm 130 out just didn't catch a medium sized hill that leads down to the green. Can only see about half the flag stick I hit my 9 iron I can tell its at it and I see it bounce but on the walk up I cant see it on or around the green I was thinking I went long and as I was walking past the hole took a peak down at the hole as I walked by for shits and gigs then proceeded to lose my mind a bit seeing my ball at the bottom of it.

[Lugowskins]

Best shot this week was my first successful attempt at shaping a shot. Fairly short par 4 only 310 but a large pond in front that its about 280 to carry. I play my 5 iron off the tee and push it right into the tree line dividing an adjacent hole. Pin is left center of the green and where I'm at the only gap I have is if I hit a straight shot and I could maybe catch the right edge of the green. I'm 130ish out and decide to try to hit a draw (I'm still learning to hit it straight so this is a stretch) I pull out my 9, turn my club face in a bit try hard to really turn my hands over on the follow through it was beautiful nice high trajectory wasn't until it made it to the water that it started to turn and it turned hard came down center of the green and rolled past the hole to within 8 feet. Of course left the birdie putt short and tapped in for par but nice to know that shot is a possible.

[SavvySwede]

Hit the green in two on the par 5 11th hole on back to back days. A 4 iron to 15ft for an easy two putt birdie and a 3h to 3ft for an eagle on the second day.

[bkuehn1952]

Saturday it was pretty nice: 37 degrees (f), 5-10 mph breeze and the occasional glimpse of the sun.  Played the neighboring town's muni.  6th hole is over water to a small green.  Hit 5 iron into the breeze and ended up about 12 feet from the front hole position, one inch off the green and on to the fringe.  "Chipped in" with my putter for birdie, leaving the flag stick in.  Of course, the ball would have dropped with or without the flag stick but I am going to play the odds from this point forward.

[Club Rat]

Had an eagle today on a par five today.
An up hill shot with the pin in the middle swale, unfortunately couldn't see it go in. 

[SavvySwede]

Rattled the pin from 90 yards yesterday. It jumped back 15ft but I still made the putt for birdie.

[boogielicious]

I chipped in for a par from about 20 yards last Sunday. I, of course, left the pin in! 

[dkinser86]

From last week.  Hadn't been playing very through the first 5 holes, I couldn't a 9 on a par 5. Par 3, with the pin tucked on the front of the green.  Uphill, about 160 yards with a good wind at my back.  Hit a 9 iron absolutely perfect.  As soon as I hit, I said, "that's gonna be tight!"  Being uphill, I could see the bottom of the flagstick, but sure enough it was real tight.  Judging by the pitch mark, it had to have rolled just over the edge of the hole.