theeaglehunter
Tour Winner
Not sure if this has been done before, but in your opinion what is the best shot in golf? Be it the long, soaring drive, the delicate flop over a bunker, or sinking that 30 foot putt. Let me know what you think.
best shot in golf
- Thread starter theeaglehunter
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At the moment anything that goes remotely near where it was aimed
Im a fan of belting the driver and leaving a short iron to the green but the most exhilerating is when you have a tight green surrounded by bunkers with 70-80 yards to go and getting the ball to stop by the pin and not make a horlicks of it and dumping it into the bunker.
Atticus_Finch
Journeyman Pro
Long iron shot with the exact shape that you envisaged that hangs up and lands softly in the heart of the green.
backwoodsman
Tour Winner
A well spanked drive does tend to bring out the "oh my gosh, that's travelling rather well" exclamations (ok, I tend to use fewer words on the course) but the 80yard pitching wedge over trees is the one. I know one shouldn't have to, but look at my tag.....
madandra
Money List Winner
The knock down long iron gives you some buzz when it comes off.
Gasp
Head Pro
The low fizzing chip that pitches, one bounce and stops.... hopefuly next to the hole..
billyg
Q-School Graduate
At the moment it's the 163 yard , 21 degree hybrid I hit on the 13 fairway on Saturday.
Cleared the drainage ditch set back at 60 yards from the green , skipped on the fringe and came to rest ten inches from the hole giving me a tap in for gross birdie
The other half (preparing a medicine shot to my right at the time) thought I'd had a heart attack when I spluttered and dropped to my knees
I might play the rest of my life and never jam one like that again.
Would love to say I meant it but (apart from in the broadest sense) I didn't.
Golf - gotta love it sometimes.
Apart from that I would say the well struck 4 or 5 iron that plops neatly on the middle of the green. It's a Zen moment isn't it?
Cleared the drainage ditch set back at 60 yards from the green , skipped on the fringe and came to rest ten inches from the hole giving me a tap in for gross birdie
The other half (preparing a medicine shot to my right at the time) thought I'd had a heart attack when I spluttered and dropped to my knees
I might play the rest of my life and never jam one like that again.
Would love to say I meant it but (apart from in the broadest sense) I didn't.
Golf - gotta love it sometimes.
Apart from that I would say the well struck 4 or 5 iron that plops neatly on the middle of the green. It's a Zen moment isn't it?
medwayjon
Tour Winner
Never had one and probably never will be but me it has to be this;
You tee up on a short par4, select driver, hit an absolute snorter that looks destined for the gree and then wow, shock, its only gone in the hole for an albatross!
If I ever did this the clubhouse would be suffering a shortage of my beverage of choice that day.
You tee up on a short par4, select driver, hit an absolute snorter that looks destined for the gree and then wow, shock, its only gone in the hole for an albatross!
If I ever did this the clubhouse would be suffering a shortage of my beverage of choice that day.
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
Anything that required imagination and execution, not just flushing a straight shot, but having to manufacture something special, such that when you pull it off, you think no one else could have seen it like that, or carried it off, not even tiger.
viscount17
Money List Winner
It has to be the shot played in front of an audience, but then that's also the worst shot.
Don't you just love the tee-shot as you are let through?
Don't you just love the tee-shot as you are let through?
clubchamp07
Journeyman Pro
I think it would have to be the 4iron I hit last year for my 2nd shot on our 17th, in the club championship. I had just taken a triple on the 16th to let another guy back into the race. It was a low punch shot with the 4iron into about 7 feet, which I holed and we 2 shots infront again.
I also had a hole in 1 that same round. But the 4 iron made me smile.
I also had a hole in 1 that same round. But the 4 iron made me smile.
MVP
Journeyman Pro
HOLEIN1
Toad
Tour Rookie
My first shot on Saturday was a 6 iron to the 153y first landed 6 feet behind the pin and spun back to 3 inches for my first birdie of the day.
TonyN
Money List Winner
For me, anythin that lands in the heart of the green with a wedge or nine iron. Do love the long straight drive though
mikest
Club Champion
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For me i love seeing a smooth put going in from any distance, but the longer, the better. The feeling when hitting a great drive is brilliant but as the old saying goes "drives for show.....etc etc". Standing on the first tee alls that is in my mind is "grip it and rip it". 
HTL
Tour Winner
165 yards to hole, 8 iron in hand, perfectly executed shot landing softly to within 5 foot.
GB72
Money List Winner
Love the feeling of a long straight drive off the first tee when the eyes of all the waiting groups are on you and the rest of your group are heckling about not choking under the pressure.
pjaz
Assistant Pro
Shots from the tee have the wow factor, whatever hole you are playing, and can really set you up for how you play the rest of the hole.
Equally, playing 1st in a society day with all other 16-20 people watching the tee shot on the first - get a good one away and you feel great, get a bad one and for the rest of the hole.
Equally, playing 1st in a society day with all other 16-20 people watching the tee shot on the first - get a good one away and you feel great, get a bad one and
for the rest of the hole.
I don't anything beats seeing a snaker of a 30 yard double breaking putt leave the face with the perfect weight and taking exactly the line you chose and dropping at the end of its journey.
