Back from the brink (unlikely eagles/birdies/par saves)

[thesheriff]

Hi all,

Have you ever turned a potential disaster hole back from the brink and made it into a good one by making the a miraculou par save, birdie or even an eagle??

Here's mine... I got my first birdie since starting playing the game again last night. 460 yard par 5, hooked my drive fully 50 yards left to the middle of another fairway. Hit a nice 7 back into position, then flushed (half thinned actually :S) a sand wedge to about 4 feet and sank the putt.

As I watched the drive sail over the trees I was 50/50 between running to a position where i might see it down and just marching straight back to the bag for another ball. Glad I chose the former!!

Making a 4 was the very last outcome i would've predicted.

 

[Dan2501]

I hit a drive about 30 yards on a long par 5 straight off the hosel, and somehow still made par. Smashed hybrid second shot, hit an iron into position, stiffed it with a wedge and made the putt for par. After that tee shot I was definitely fearing the worst.

 

[Imurg]

Hi all,

Have you ever turned a potential disaster hole back from the brink and made it into a good one by making the a miraculou par save, birdie or even an eagle??

All the time..!
I'm a Specialist.

 

[bladeplayer]

Ive twice parred our short Par 5 fourth hole after going OOB of the tee ..


Big high mature trees divide our 8th & 10th have had a few good (lucky) birdies from the wrong fairway ..

 

[Craggles89]

Hi all,

Have you ever turned a potential disaster hole back from the brink and made it into a good one by making the a miraculou par save, birdie or even an eagle??

Here's mine... I got my first birdie since starting playing the game again last night. 460 yard par 5, hooked my drive fully 50 yards left to the middle of another fairway. Hit a nice 7 back into position, then flushed (half thinned actually :S) a sand wedge to about 4 feet and sank the putt.

As I watched the drive sail over the trees I was 50/50 between running to a position where i might see it down and just marching straight back to the bag for another ball. Glad I chose the former!!

Making a 4 was the very last outcome i would've predicted.

How far did you hit your 7 iron / SW?!?!?

 

[masterosouffle]

I think he means 50yds off line, rather than 50yds

 

[Backache]

I have to confess to being far more adept at rescuing double bogeys from nailed on pars.

 

[Break90]

Topped a drive on our 390ish yard 15th hole, went about 130 yards. Was 2 down in a match at the time, then hit a perfect 3 wood to 12 feet and holed it for birdie and a win.

playing a foursomes match on the same hole, my partner drove into the bushes on the right, managed to find it but couldn't play it. Took a drop, then knocked a hybrid to 6feet, which my partner holed for a miraculous par.

i like that hole........

 

[mcbroon]

H4H last year, hit a wild drive at 9 underneath a gorse bush deep in the trees on the right. Birchy found it, thankfully, but I had almost no stance and a tiny gap to get out. Managed to smash a PW back into the fairway, stuck a 9i to 10 feet and rolled in the par putt to go out in 38, IIRC.

Score collapsed after 15 but that one kept the show on the road for a while.

 

[Piece]

Par 5, 5th at St Andrews OC. First drive into the gorse - gutted. Second drive left, just off the fairway....fourth shot to just off green. Nail a monster putt for par.

 

[duncan mackie]

Sitting a decent distance down but on another fairway is less of a potential disaster than still having to hit the tee shot for me...

 

[ScienceBoy]

Ask RickG about my par 5 at Centurion Club with 3 lost balls.

 

[Hobbit]

Playing a regional matchplay over at Hesketh GC. 1 down stood on the 17th tee, a long par 5 with lots of trees all the way down the left. Opponent murdered his drive down the fairway. I hook mine onto the 18th fairway. Choices, choices, choices. Do I knock it back, almost sideways, onto the 17th fairway, leaving a monster 3rd shot... or... play an outragous 3 wood straight at the 17th green, through a narrow shute/pathway with trees either side, from the 17th green to the 18th tee?

Option 1, playing back to the 17th fairway gives the oppoenent a good chance of winning 2&1. Option 2 lessens the chance of loss of hole, providing I hit it straight. I threw my full (back then) 10st into the shot. Will it make the green, will it, will it really? No quite but its only a yard short and its on short grass. My opponent makes a regulation par to my birdie.

Both on the last green in 2. He knocks his hole-side and a gimmie par. I can an 8 foot swinging putt to win the match... April 1988.

 

[Tashyboy]

Hit me tee shot on a gorgeous par three at our place (Hallam Heights) it went like an arrow into the sun. Got down to the green and had a look in the hole. Nowt. Gone through the back of the green and down a slope with pin 15 ft above, pitched onto green through the green and was 6 inch off dropping into bunker. 15ft through the first an second cut to the pin. I have two clubs in me hand. 56 wedge an putter went with the latter an dropped it straight in the middle.
i didn't know whether to laugh or cry

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I do have moments of brilliance where I'll make a Seve like recovery from places golf balls rarely see. Sadly they are few and far between but when the do arrive, nothing impresses a PP like a miracle up and down for birdie or par

 

[pokerjoke]

Ask RickG about my par 5 at Centurion Club with 3 lost balls.

Why don't you tell us because that's what the threads about.

 

[Craggles89]

I think he means 50yds off line, rather than 50yds

Right you are, you version makes a lot more sense than mine :thup:

 

[Odvan]

Nothing overly special but in a comp recently on our 17th Par 4. OOB left, fairway bunker in prime driving reach leaving a narrow neck of fairway to go for.

Anyway, hit it straight into the fairway bunker, had a decent lie but 155 to the pin, went for it and got up to the front side of the green....but in the green side bunker. Managed to get up and down for par, only needing to tap it in from the bunker shot.

I was impressed anyway..

 

[guest100718]

One thing I've learned over the years is a bad t shot doesn't always mean a bad score. Ive had birdies and pars plenty of times from the most unlikely places.

I.e all is not lost.

 

[FairwayDodger]

Two holes down in club championship final one year and I found myself in a deep bunker while my opponent had a birdie putt and looking, frankly, like par would give her a three hole lead.

I holed the bunker shot, she missed her birdie and I was back in the match.