Best Shot of the Week

[ChetlovesMer]

During league night on Wednesday I had a bit of a lightbulb go off and I struck my approaches well all day. But the best one was a Gap Wedge from the fescue on hole 16.  

Crossed myself up on a tee shot that requires a fade. Instead I hit a slight draw into the fescue. (The fescue doesn't show up on the shotscope picture, but trust me, it's there.)

I was left 109 to the flag. I hit a gap wedge to about 12 feet. Yeah, I missed the birdie putt. But didn't embarrass myself. Took tap in par and happily moved on to hole 17. 

In all the time I've been playing this course. I've never played a ball to the left of the little tree shown in the top right corner of the bottom picture. 

[saevel25]

My best shot was BS, I classify as good result. When you try to hit a punch out on the yellow line. Then you just steepen the club from A6.5 and pull hook it way left. It wraps around a tree, gets past the big tree before the green, and rolls up to about 10-FT from the pin.🤣

Then I leave the birdie putt 1/2" short in the heart. I deserved that. 🤣

[TK26]

Best shot of the day was the shot of Crown Royal at the turn.

[saevel25]

Hole 6, you need to hit a 240 ish slight draw. I decided to flight a hybrid. I made the perfect length backswing, I swung down better, and I kept my arms in front of my chest in the finish with a 3/4 finish.  The ball didn’t get to the tree tops, flighted push draw. I really felt that stretch of the club pulling me up into the finish. 

2nd is the next shot, a 70 yard waist to waist distance 52 degree wedge that landed 3 yards short of pin high and one hop stop pin high. Nippy. 😁

 

 

[phan52]

I was having a decent round (no doubles is a decent rough these days) when I got to eight and hit a drive that looked like it was going into a fairway bunker. I wish it had because, when I got to the ball, it was hanging on the edge of the bunker and I had no stance. I got into the bunker and just tried to baseball swing a wedge to advance it a little but I bounced it about ten yards into deep rough. I still had 185 to the green and envisioned my first double (at best). Probably should have taken my medicine with a wedge, but I pulled my 25 degree hybrid instead. I made good contact with a lot of topspin and it tumbled and rolled all the way to the green where I was able to two putt for a bogie to keep my "decent round" intact. 😎

[saevel25]

On my trip at Bandon. I have a couple of best shots come to mind. I had kind of a stupidly good short game shot out of some nasty stuff. I didn't really make any bombs putting. 

I could say any drive I hit straight that was hitting directly into the wind, lol. That was nasty. I literally hit a ball like 150 yards right.

I am going with my drive on hole 18 at Old MacDonald. 469 yard par 4, down wind. The narrowest fairway on the course, and you have to navigate two sets of bunkers. I stripe one down the middle, catch the slope and have to roll out to about 95 yards to the pin. So yea, that 370-ish drive in the fairway on a 469 par 4 wins the shot of the week. 

[saevel25]

Hole 6, 185 uphill par 3, wind out of the right. I hit a 7 iron to 5-FT left of the pin. The ball landed about 185.5 yards. I drained the putt for a birdie, and most likely a skin. 

2nd place is more of a best swing made. 110 yard wedge shot, where I did what I wanted in the back swing and downswing.  I hit a 75% partial wedge 95%. It was flushed, flighted, and beautiful to watch fly over the green. 🤣. I will need to redial in the wedges sometime. Since I am making an effort to make my former 3/4 swing length my full swing length. 

[DeadMan]

That far away from a 2 on a par 5. 7 iron from 188. 

[iacas]

2 minutes ago, DeadMan said:

That far away from a 2 on a par 5. 7 iron from 188. 

Roll back the… :checks notes: … altitude!

[DeadMan]

11 minutes ago, iacas said:

Roll back the… :checks notes: … altitude!

If it makes you feel any better, my drive was 336 yards according to shot scope…

[Shindig]

I played Hansen Dam on Saturday.   The 9th hole is long and has an elevated green.  I hit my drive into the first cut on the left, but had a clear shot at the green.  I have never reached this green in regulation before (I used to play this course semi-regularly), but then again, a 400+ yard par-4, #1 handicap hole, and I've never had a handicap south of 11.9, I'm usually happy with a smart near-GIR and I don't view a bogey as a defeat on that hole.  Anyway, I hit a great shot with my 3H, pulled a little -- thankfully, I aimed middle of the green and the pin was on the green's left side, so the pull worked out.  I had 17' for birdie and, while I didn't make it, I'm still happy just about any time I have a tap-in par, especially on the #1 handicap hole.

[ChetlovesMer]

On Thursday, I played "Safari Golf Club" in Dublin, Ohio. Hole 14 is a par-4 that plays up hill the entire way.

I hit a solid drive that leaked a little right and found the rough on the right side. Leaving me only about 115 to the flag, but with the tallest part of a tall tree right in my line. 

I tried to very slightly open the face of my P-wedge and hit it over the tallest part of the tree (which for some reason is the left edge of the tree). With my playing partner and two other random ladies watching I hit it straight over the obstacle landing about 2 feet short of the flagstick and it spun back to about 6-7 feet. Made the uphill putt for birdie. Yay for me. 

Best shot of the week and only birdie of the day. 

[colin007]

Last night:

 

Short-ish par 4, topped my 3 wood off the tee, had 221 left to the hole, I hit a 4 iron to about 9 feet and made the putt for birdie.

[Shindig]

I played Toka Sticks Golf Club this afternoon in beautiful Mesa Arizona.   On the par-5 12th hole, I hit my third shot, from 100 yards out in the rough, to 7 feet and made the putt.   Compared to the 10 hcp baseline, that third shot was 0.96 strokes gained and the putt was good for another 0.56 strokes gained.  

I want to say that third was my best shot of the week.   My only other shot all day that gained me more than 0.5 shots was draining a 14-foot par putt on the final hole for a gain of 0.9 strokes. 

It is still worth remembering that 100 yards out in the rough, a 10 handicap will average about 3.5, so hitting the green and two-putting from there is good!  That was my goal in hitting the first shot;  sometimes, you hit the ball when the green is within your shot zone, and that zone just happens to include the pin.  I think everyone here knows it wasn't my target when planning my shot. 

[DaveP043]

I don't know that these were the "best", but they were definitely the closest..... to each other.  

Those were my ball and Mary Anne's ball, maybe 6 feet from the hole, and actually touching.  We both missed the putts!