ruff-driver
Journeyman Pro
So many variables in this question due to the players ability level.
What is the shot you fear the most ?
What is the shot you fear the most ?
Hardest shot in golf
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SugarPenguin
Challenge Tour Pro
Probably any shot with the driver as there is a larger margin for error. If something goes wrong then it's a guarenteed bogey at the very least.
DaveL
Assistant Pro
The next one, a bit tongue in cheek but true all the same.
MashieNiblick
Tour Winner
Had one last weekend - ball 6 inches inside back lip of deep bunker. Not fear exactly but you pretty much know you will playing your next shot from the same bunker.
IanG
Tour Rookie
A soft wedge shot off a bald summer lie with an obstacle in front like a burn or a bunker, in a foursomes match where you need to get up and down to keep the game alive...
Khamelion
Tour Winner
+1 to this
The one from the dragon when I tell her I going out to play
Duckster
Tour Rookie
Hardest shot for me. 6 foot straight putt to break my lowest score.
srixon 1
Journeyman Pro
The next one, after you have just shanked a full wedge OOB from the middle of the fairway.
Did this a few years ago
Did this a few years ago
SHiiBBZ
Club Champion
I hate shots from the fairway about 170 yards to the pin with a small lake in front of the green covering about 20 yards.
Every single time I go in that bloody lake!!!
Every single time I go in that bloody lake!!!
tugglesf239
Journeyman Pro
Green side bunker with a big lip from hard compacted sand, that has not been raked in weeks.
My nemesis
My nemesis
mikejohnchapman
Challenge Tour Pro
Left to right breaking put downhill.
StrangelyBrown
Tour Winner
Lay up
For me, it's probably any shot from around the green, say 50 yards and in. I know that covers a whole gambit of shot types, but none of them are easy.
I was going to say driver as that is where I collapse most frequently but this is a good shout. That is right on the edge of my range, too long for an iron and my hybrids are horribly inconsistent. No doubt I would try to hit the ball too hard and not catch it cleanly. On a good day I would go for it and probably fail 5 times out of 6. Any other day I would take a 9 iron and lay up. Experience has taught me to lay up. I'm no Tin Cup.
Oddsocks
Ryder Cup Winner
The dead straight ball Imho
Robobum
Money List Winner
A long iron with a stiff breeze into off the left
duncan mackie
Money List Winner
the one that carries the largest cost of failure is the hardest shot - however that does not make it one to be feared at all; possibly the opposite!
most feared would probably be an easy wide open first fairway in front of a large group of interested spectators !
Crazyface
Tour Winner
EVERY single shot from about the 15th onwards when you're in a big comp and have a good card going. I've only had this senario twice and it's bloomin' tough. Trying not to shake on shots that you know are tough but makeable. God knows what it is like for the pros in big comps.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
The next one, after you have just shanked a full wedge OOB from the middle of the fairway.
Did this a few years ago
Been there!
Did this 5 times in a row during a Medal on thenday of Princess Di's funeral!!
For me, at the moment, its any bunker shot.
We have so few and I rarely go in them but that just means I don't get the practice so when into gomin its harder...
Dan2501
Tour Winner
Shots like this:
https://vine.co/v/Opwd5Zw9Fmm
They're impossible. At least with shots over water you have a chance, or can lay up, what's your option here? Unless you get incredibly fortunate and pull it off, which for someone of my limited ability is never going to happen, you're having another in the bunker.
https://vine.co/v/Opwd5Zw9Fmm
They're impossible. At least with shots over water you have a chance, or can lay up, what's your option here? Unless you get incredibly fortunate and pull it off, which for someone of my limited ability is never going to happen, you're having another in the bunker.
