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What's the luckiest shot you've played or seen play ?

My one had to be at the weekend. Took my m8 out for a round Saturday. First time he'd played in about 18 months.

Got to our par 5 14, they'd moved the tees up for some reason so was only playing about 420. He pulled his drive in amongst a few small trees about 200 yards out from the green. One tree was right in line with the green.

He asked what I think he should do. Said just knock it out to the right of the tree with a 7 iron back on the fairway and have an easy pitch on.

He decided to ignore me and pulled his hybrid instead. Proceeded to nail it right at said tree. Nicked a branch and it veered off right (I'm thinking that's heading for the rough on the other side of the fairway) but no the spin the branch put on it caused it to draw all the way back left. Ended up flying between two trees, god knows how (You'd never hit one through there if you were trying), and comes to rest 5 ft in front of the green.

He chips then putts for a birdy.

Jamey you know what :D
 
I guess my 2010 contender came in the stableford the other week. Pulled my tee shot at our 7th and totally blocked out. Too close to do anything really but pulled the 5 wood on some wild notion I could hit it low and it might scuttle towards the green. Hit it pretty solid straight towards it. I was thinking it has to hit it and go into then environmental area left (OB). Instead it flew through everything and didn't touch a single branch and ran into the bunker short left. A decent bunker shot and one putt and a routine par on the card.
 
Years ago, before my old club was upgraded from 9 to 18 holes, there was a cow field to the left of the first. OB, of course, and there were loads of balls in the field.

One medal, my mate tee'd off and hooked wildly. Into the field, 3 off the tee etc etc


Until the ball smacked a cow right on the rump, bounced onto a metal trough and rebounded back into play. Not just into play but in the fairway, after which he played on and birdied the hole.
Won the medal by a good few shots too.


The proverbial cow's a*se but no Banjo in sight!
 
i have 2
1st hit the tee shoot down the 12th par 4 pulled the tee shoot heading ob hit a branch and came back in to play never hit a tee shoot as far
2nd in the trees got out 7 iron hit the ball,ball hit a tree came back and hit me on the leg at same time trough the club and hit a tree and broke the shaft
 
5th hole at St. Mellion. Short dogleft left par 4, where you have to carry about 160 over water but the fairway runs out at about 220ish. The corner is a no go because it's filled with big trees.

I pulled my 4 iron out and hooked it into the trees on the left. Didn't see what it hit or if it came out.

After looking in the trees for a couple of minutes I spotted my ball smack bang in the middle of the fairway, couldn't have placed it better if I walked up and dropped it myself!!

Wedge into the bunker, rubbish shot out and 2 putts for another bogey :)
 
2nd in the trees got out 7 iron hit the ball,ball hit a tree came back and hit me on the leg at same time trough the club and hit a tree and broke the shaft
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If that's lucky I'd hate to see a bad day!
 
I once saw someone playing in the club championship at Millport, 4th play off hole.

Par 3, he shanked it off the tee, hit the top of the OB wall, bounced a further 3 times on the wall, yes 3 bloomin times before the ball fell, within play greenside.

Pitch and putt later he was in the next round!
 
hit the ball onto our 4th hole par 3 which is surrounded by gates to stop buggies and I toed the ball from the elevated tee and it hit one of the gates and landed feet from the hole and a birdie followed. Never birdied it since. :D
 
My luckiest shot was probably the hole-in-one. Probably because I haven't had another one since, tricky little blighters!

Second would be sitting in the car at Gatton Manor about to drive off when a ball hits the windscreen and bounces onto the green for a tap-in birdie, lucky 'cos I'd have nutted the bloke if the windscreen was damaged ;)
 
playing with our old assist pro in a friendly match play last year. Par 5 13th laid up to leave 130, Perfect 8 iron for me. Hit it a little bit to thin although the line was good. Thought it was gonna skip through to the back of the green instead of front, put my club back in bag without looking at the shot land but as I started to walk up the fairway 4 old geezers were pointing at the cup and clapping. Eagle :D
 
Never saw it but my dad honestly got his first hole in one by thinning the ball (yellow one, still got it) into a group of trees 30 yards short right of the green. It hit one of the middle ones then bounced into the hole after one other bounce. His second one was a proper shot thankfully!!
 
My round on Saturday when I won the mid month Stableford contained a few......
Had a Gross 75 (4 over) with 2 double bogies for 41 points.
I had 5 birdies, only one of which was with the putter. The other 4 were all chipped/pitched in from off the green from 15 feet, 20 feet, 15 yds, & 20 yds.....:D
Bought a lottery ticket on the back of it, but won zip!! :(
 
A certain Jouker I've seen play a few shots. But this one was special.

At Copthorne the 2nd is described as thus :

The hole is a slight dogleg to the left and actually a combination of two of the original holes. Like the first, this hole is played into the prevailing wind and the second shot can be anywhere between a 4 iron and a 9 iron to a green which slopes away from the approach. Beware the 20-30 yards of dead ground in front of the green and the Out of Bounds close to the left of the Green.

Please note the OOB close to the left of the green, we'll come back to that in a moment.

Any sane person just picks up a 4w or 5w, smacks it down the middle, leaving a short iron to the green.

But our Jouker ( who shall remain nameless ) decides to push it into the trees on the right of the fairway, almost exactly 150 yards out. Only to the edge of the trees maybe, but requiring an impossible 'fade ' of about 70 yards to even glimpse at the green.

Yes, that's a 70 yard slice, with OOB close to the left of the green.

I think you're getting the picture.

So does our hero chip out sideways?

Nope.

Or does he take a 7 iron to try for the slice, but keep it in play if it all goes tits up ?

Nope.

Or does he take a 5w ( yes that's a 5 WOOD !! ), take a full thwack at it, with the intention of playing some kind of miracle shot that Seve, Tiger, Phil, and Uncle Tom Cobley between them couldn't dream up ( I believe it involved playing the shot 150 yards forwards and 70 yards sideways, totalling 220 yards, which is about right for the 5w, as long as there's loads of backspin on it to keep it on the green)

This is where the OOB comes into play, btw.

The ball shoots out of the rough roughly in the desired direction, only with abso-blimmin-lutely no sidespin.

It's gone.

Solid gone.

Only there's a bench at the edge of the trees. Just one bench, about 5 foot long. With a slatted back, with struts about 3" wide.

Our hero only plays his ball into said bench, on the full from 150 yards out.

It hits one of the 3" wide struts right in the middle.

It bounces back 45 yards in a direct line to the very edge of the fairway, leaving a perfectly simple chip and run, which our Jouker plays to 6', and happily sinks it for a simple par.

And some people say there isn't a God. Well I'm telling you straight, this guy has sold his soul to someone, for sure.

 
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