saw the funniest shot today

[Atticus_Finch]

You would have laughed playing Carnoustie one year Mike. We were playing the 18th, long (long) par 4 and it was into the wind. We had not a hope in hell of getting on for two. I had played short of the burn in front of the green and was attempting to play a knock down 7 iron into the wind for my third shot . I hit it fat, and the ball disappeared down the Barry burn. I was annoyed with myself and started to reach into my bag for another ball when after what seemed like an eternity my ball bounced off the wall, came back and rolled into the divot I had just taken. My mates couldn't believe it and were peeing themselves laughing.

I have one very similar Smiffy, at the exact same hole.
My mate, who was in a similar position to you, proceeded to thin is wedge and it went like a daisy cutter into the Barry Burn. We all started to have a giggle (friendly game) until it hit the wall of the burn, bounced onto the opposite wall and then popped up onto the green about 4ft from the pin.
Jammyness doesn't even start to describe it.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

You would have laughed playing Carnoustie one year Mike. We were playing the 18th, long (long) par 4 and it was into the wind. We had not a hope in hell of getting on for two. I had played short of the burn in front of the green and was attempting to play a knock down 7 iron into the wind for my third shot . I hit it fat, and the ball disappeared down the Barry burn. I was annoyed with myself and started to reach into my bag for another ball when after what seemed like an eternity my ball bounced off the wall, came back and rolled into the divot I had just taken. My mates couldn't believe it and were peeing themselves laughing.

I have one very similar Smiffy, at the exact same hole.
My mate, who was in a similar position to you, proceeded to thin is wedge and it went like a daisy cutter into the Barry Burn. We all started to have a giggle (friendly game) until it hit the wall of the burn, bounced onto the opposite wall and then popped up onto the green about 4ft from the pin.
Jammyness doesn't even start to describe it.

One of my playing partners swears by the saying "there are no pictures on the scorecard". I think it's apt for this thread.

 

[markwarne]

Saw one in last weekends competition that had me smiling, even though it nearly maimed one of our 3 ball.

Youngish guy on elevated (3rd) tee. Winds up his driver to put the ball into supersonic mode. It lifts off practically vertical, hits an overhanging branch, spins off backwards and lands 5 feet from pin on the 2nd green where we were putting out.

You had to feel for him as he sheepishly walked up and said "can I have my ball back mister".

Priceless moment in golf

 

[TonyN]

Played a half decent Muni round my way last year with a pal of mine (pro) and we were teeing it up on the 15th, a very short reachable par 4, that he eagled the last time out.

I told him I was going to tee it high and see it fly, right onto the green. How I managed to thin it i'll never know, but it managed to hit the ladies tee and start back towards us at a rate of knots suited to an exocet, I ducked and didnt even notice where it landed. I just stood in disbelief thinking about it, as I reached for a my tee, Dave said, you were right, you hit the green. (it was the first, and it was 80 yards behind us! )

 

[jammydodger]

Bloke I knew told me played with a chap who drove off the tee but topped it left about 15 yards behind a smallish tree , He proceeds to take out his 3-wood to smash the living daylights out of it and moves it about 2 yards. He then gets madder and just walks up and wellies it again but this time it smacks straight into the tree and bounces back behind the tee they just played from.

Well theyre laughing away thinking he's just hit 3 woods into the par 4 and he's minus 10 yards !!

 

[Parmo]

Was at the driving range at Villa Martin with my dad and watched him slice the ball about 100 yards into the trees, whilst looking for his ball to pop out a bird fell out stone dead!! Not sure if it was hit or scared to death but that was one funny time.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Similar to TonyN I hit a shot at Ashdown Forest years ago. I flushed it but hit it thin and it caught the ladies tee marker square on and flew over our heads (just) and across the fairway behind. I was playing my second with a 5 wood to try and get back towards the tee box

 

[vig]

Many years ago I played with a good mate and his brother. His Brother hit a peach of a drive on a par 5 and it was sat up like a coconut on the fairway. He pulled out a 3 wood and made an impressively powerful swing. We heard the woosh and looked up to see, the head of his 3 wood plummeting back down to earth like a pigeon with one wing. He was stood open mouthed looking at the broken end of his shaft and the ball was still on the faiway sat up like a coconut.
We all creased up and his game went to pieces.

 

[Twire]

At my previous club, one of the tiger tee's was elevated and the front reinforced with vertical railway sleepers. The teeing area was about an inch below the sleepers, so you could just see the top of them. I tee'd up about 3 yards from the front of the tee, and let rip with my driver, unfortunately I skinnied it, it hit the top of the sleeper went about 50-60 yards up then landed about 5 yards behind me. As you can imagine, I took a wee bit of stick for the rest of the round, and was the talk of the clubhouse for a couple of weeks after.

 

[Herbie]

One of the funniest shots I took was on a severe dogleg left that always caused problems for many golfers as hitting to the corner to have a position to hit the green was very difficult and many ended up in the woods or ditch, or poor position to miss the trees with approach shots.

I teed off with a beautiful strike and did the stupid thing and went too close to the left side and it kicked into the trees, teed up again determined to hit it right, I hit it perfect, the marker post in the middle of the fairway at the turn was my aiming point, I hit this post , I teed up again in temper, hit the ball clean but with a vengeance, shot beyond the corner, hit a tree and went in the ditch . I was known as 'Lucky' for the rest of the round.

 

[Smiffy]

Another funny one I witnessed was again in Scotland playing a course called Letham Grange.
My Brother in Law (Martin) was in my fourball and we were playing the 10th (I think)...lovely tree lined par 5 that snaked one way and then the other and then dropped down to the green.
He hit a reasonable drive but then pulled his second shot into the trees on the left, his lie meant all he could really do was hack out sideways.
He got his wedge, gave it a biff, took a massive divot and his ball popped straight up in the air.
The only problem was that the divot was still attached at one end, the ball dropped back down into the hole he had "dug" and the divot snapped back down over the ball like an oyster shell. He couldn't remove it, because as I say...it was still attached at one end!
He proceeded to wrap his wedge around the tree....he had a nasty tempter did Martin and his driver also suffered the same fate at Ladybank when he kept mis-hitting his drives and smashed it over his trolley handle!
He doesn't play any more by the way.

 

[Atticus_Finch]

Another funny one I witnessed was again in Scotland playing a course called Letham Grange.
My Brother in Law (Martin) was in my fourball and we were playing the 10th (I think)...lovely tree lined par 5 that snaked one way and then the other and then dropped down to the green.
He hit a reasonable drive but then pulled his second shot into the trees on the left, his lie meant all he could really do was hack out sideways.
He got his wedge, gave it a biff, took a massive divot and his ball popped straight up in the air.
The only problem was that the divot was still attached at one end, the ball dropped back down into the hole he had "dug" and the divot snapped back down over the ball like an oyster shell. He couldn't remove it, because as I say...it was still attached at one end!
He proceeded to wrap his wedge around the tree....he had a nasty tempter did Martin and his driver also suffered the same fate at Ladybank when he kept mis-hitting his drives and smashed it over his trolley handle!
He doesn't play any more by the way.

I live less than a mile from Letham Grange. It's the 9th. One of the great par 5s IMO, Double dogleg par 5 unreachable in 2. Awesome. Goal for Liverpool.

 

[viscount17]

Sorry Viscount but you hitting the ball BACKWARDS on the 18th at Goswick does it for me ... what trickery

that was skill that was! go on, you do it.

 

[Imurg]

This from a thread last November......

4 of us turned up a club in Oxfordshire to play a social round. As we walked to the 1st tee there were 2 ladies just about to play. They insisted that we played first as they would probably hold us up so we got going. The first 3 of us tee'd of no problem and then came JR - an ex-army sergeant with the power of 3 bulls. He'd just got the brand new Mizuno T-Zoid Driver (shows you how long ago it was!) and he was aching to let rip.

As he addressed the ball I thought to myself that he'd tee'd the ball up awfully high but before I had time to do anything he'd taken an almighty swish. His finish pose was classic - the ball went 20 yards in the air and landed down the cleavage of one of the women who had positioned themselves 10 yards behind us.

I was on my knees and to say we just wet ourselves laughing is the understatement of the century - even the Secretary came out to see what all the noise was about.

JR went the kind on red normally associated with the Special K models dresses and was very quiet once we managed to pull ourselves together.

And I think the lady had her eye on him as she asked him if he wanted to get his ball back.........

 

[GB72]

Have hit a similar drive to Homer and TonyN, topped one on a crowded first tee, hit the yardage sign on the ladies tee and shot through the crowd into the practice nets 10 yards behind me.