How Can Anyone Shoot an 11 on a Par 5

[markwarne]

First midweek medal of the season, a beautiful spring day, a new driver, the scene was set for the perfect round. All swingingly until the 9th when the biggest abomination of my golfing life occurred.

Boomed a drive off the tee, straight under a bush that had no right being where it was (or perhaps it was my tee shot). 1 unplayable and a drop. 5 Wood up the fairway, followed by a god awful shank, but still within wedge range to the green. 1 wedge and a ditch later, another drop. Lobbed one to hte back of the green and then a three putt.

Ruined my round. How can any self respecting golfer card an 11 (handicap 22).

Please tell me there are some kindred spirits out there to stop me giving my clubs to Oxfam.............

 

[brendy]

No 11 is pretty bad fella haha. Look on the bright side, itll not happen again. I took ab 8 at a par 3 last year just when a level par round was looking likely on the 17th, no water involved.

 

[rgs]

Easy--I started on our 10th last sunday par 5---put two balls OOB, thankfully playing S/Ford, so if playing a medal would have hit my fifth from the tee.

 

[CliveW]

Did John Daley not post an 18 on a par 4 last year?

 

[RGDave]

Mark....

In 1994 3 "golfers" (including me) met at Gatton Manor in Surrey to play a skins match.....

Somehow, not a single skin was won by the time we'd reached the par 5, the first of two on the back 9. 501 yards off yellow, not hard.....

This hole was WON with a 13.......(not by me) and the whole match ended there and then....

Interestingly (or not ) Gatton Manor has a 600 yard par 5 later on (17th) which we scored 2 sixes and a 7 on, just a few holes later.

The truth is stranger than fiction....

 

[RGDave]

Did John Daley not post an 18 on a par 4 last year?

14 over on one hole

Maybe I should be happy with shooting 100 if this can happen!!!

Phew, makes you think....

 

[haplesshacker]

You are not alone!

A friend (yeh, right!!), regularly does this about 3 times a round. Highest he (cough!) has is a 14 on the scorecard. I won't mention what the par for it was, but it wasn't 5!

Gotta hurt in a medal though.

This friend (cough) of mine came last in the 36 hole club champs last year with a gross score of a little bit (not too much) over 210. His aim this year is not to finish last, but at least a third of the way up the table. I understand that he's making steady progress to achieve that!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I opened up with an 8 on our par 3 1st in a medal recently so chin up. I came last in the club champs last year two but even though I had a mare I didn't pull out after 18 (unlike some) and kept my spirits up in the 2nd round and didn't mooch or winge to my partners.

Its golf. It will happen. It won't happen very often so let it go and focus on the positives from your game.

 

[Imurg]

Shot an 11 last year on a par 5 and I was playing off 11!!!

When it goes bad it goes bad and you've just got to grin and bare it!!

 

[nabbit]

Its golf. It will happen. It won't happen very often so let it go and focus on the positives from your game.

[/QUOTE]

I agree whole-heartedly, but if it happens in your favour then i recommend letting as many people know as possible!

 

[markwarne]

Thanks guys - I feel moderately better now. Although it did not help the medal score.

Someone mentioned a long par 5 and a score. Our signature hole is 621 yds off the whites and I managed a 6 on that, which was 4 holes after the blow up so all was not lost.

As we all say, that's golf. And I'll be back to do it again on Saturday (but no 11).

You have all saved the clubs from a donation to Oxfam

 

[Leftie]

There is always (well, usually) light at the end of the tunnel.

Last medal, I was 8 on the par 4 1st . Ended up with a nett 70, came 3rd in the silver division and cut 0.6 to 12.4.

 

[Herbie]

In one competition after I had lost all chance of competing by the 14th, I hit 4 balls OOB off the next tee determined to make it with a driver cutting the corner, I did with the 5th ball, then went in greenside ditch , the rest of this story was just mathmatical.

 

[need_my_wedge]

A couple of weeks ago I was invited to sub in a regular fourball by one of the guys I`d played with a couple of times. Was maybe a bit nervouse having not played with 2 of them before and wasn`t having the best of rounds. Going off the 7th par 5 I hit into the trees and lost the ball. Played a provisional and proceeded to play army golf down the fairway, making the trees on each shot. Played into the green for 6, I think, as the ball landed on the right side of the green, it bounced high up in the air at a right angle, and landed in a bunker off the left side of the green. Landed fried egg style, played my first shot in the sand, clipped the lip of the bunker and landed back in the hole I`d just dug. Played 3 more similar shots, each clipping the lip and each time landing back in a hole that was now 8 inches deeper than when I started. Picked up at that point..........

Like someone said above, when it goes wrong, it really goes wrong. Up side was that I started playing golf on the back nine and did a couple of holes to at least demonstrate a little potential.

 

[Smiffy]

I was playing in a medal at Crowborough once, quite a big field so a two tee start. I teed off the 10th, and was playing quite well, below my handicap.
Stood on the 9th (par 4) where par would have given me a nett 67. Fairly straightforward hole, and one that over the years had never really given me a problem before.
Walked off after carding a 9!!
Big slice into the trees on the right, it was a "loser" from the minute it left the club face. Put another ball down, over compensated with my second and hit a big duck hook into a gorse bush. Managed to locate my ball and took relief, hit an awful 5 wood into some heather up the right. Hacked my way out of there and eventually managed to get the ball on the green and 3 putted my way to my worst ever score on that particular hole.
Played the hole the following week-end in a friendly fourball and birdied the bloody thing...

 

[bobmac]

Mark, good news.
I've just been through your score and you have done yourself an injustice.
It was only a 10

 

[dangermouse]

11 - is that it?

There's a bloke at my club who plays off about 20 (and no it's not me!)

Last year he was playing in a medal, and had a 21 on the par 4 10th. And to be fair, it could have been a lot worse, but he's a good putter and got down first time from 15-20 feet. Apparently his driving wasn't up to much that day.

It's the stuff of legend round our way - so I wouldn't bother too much about your 11! I've seen low handicappers run up 8s and 9s every now and then, so 11 is hardly likely to be the worst score ever recorded on that hole!

 

[bobmac]

The record on the European Tour for highest single-hole score is 20. The unfortunate holder of that record is Philippe Porquier of France, who recorded the score at the 1978 French Open. The French Open must have some tough holes, because Ian Woosnam took a 16 on one hole there in 1986.

 

[GB72]

I carded a 9 on a par 4 in the medal last week. Topped my drive into a steep bank of rough, took me a fruther 3 shots to get it off the bank playing backwards, next shot clipped the top of the bank and came back down so had to resort to a wedge just to get the height to go over the bank and reach the front of the fairway, one more to left of the green, chip on and luckily sunk the putt.

 

[JezzE]

Mark,
Funnily enough I've just written this month in a Cornwall Golf Guide about the time I took 11 on a par 5 on the links at Perranporth. It's always stuck in my mind - not because it was the worst score I ever made I suspect, but rather because I followed it up with a 2 on the very next hole. Golf's lows and highs all in the space of 5 minutes - but that's the beauty of the game (apparently!)