Scariest shot in golf ?

[daveyc2k2]

I disagree.

The scariest shot is the one you have to hit after you have shanked it.

Spot on!! I completely agree!

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

Still the first shot of the day, especially if anyone watching, I still get the feeling that everyone else is better than me.

 

[Lollfred]

for me it's from a downhill lie at the back of a bunker, feet generally above the ball .. nasty business

 

[Lawrence22]

For me it's any putt for a birdie. At my level birdies are very rare. I eventually got my first this year last Sunday, but I have had plenty of birdie putts and many of them within 10 feet. Something just gets in my head when I stand over them.

 

[Jonny]

I'll tell you after playing this weekend. There's usually one that either scares me or at least a group on another fairway

 

[Smiffy]

Ball lying about a foot from the fringe of the green nestled down in deep grass that is growing towards you, with the pin about 3 foot on.

You can't putt it, because it's sitting too deep. You just know you can't quit on it. But you do. And move it about 6 inches and it settles even deeper. And you still can't putt. How to make yourself look a prat in 1 easy lesson.
This scenario is usually followed by a helicoptered sand wedge.

 

[Jonny]

Smiffy may I point you at this link in relation to that particular little nightmare scenario.

Works pretty well once you realise it's just a bunker shot adaptation

http://web.tigerwoods.com/news/article/200911117654878/tips/

 

[Crawfy]

The drive at the first at Gweedore (Donegal) or Linn Park ( Glasgow)

Both where I learned to play as a boy :

At Gweedore I would have the rest of the local juniors waiting to murmur at "the fella from Glasgow"
At Linn Park, there seemed to be a queue of a dozen golfers waiting every Sunday morning, with their eyes burning holes in the back of my wee head.


Something must have worked as driving is now the strongest part of my game.....

 

[NWJocko]

First tee at Winterfield in Dunbar with a blinding hangover, a howling gale and with 3 hours sleep behind you

In general downhill lie with a long iron and a carry in front of you (water, rough etc)

 

[znuffzz]

Any approach shot with a 5 iron or less where the ball is above my feet....ARGH

 

[Khamelion]

The 18th green at Whickham, the club house and two large plate glass windows are less then 10 feet from the green, get the approach wrong there and you asking a member what club to take to get your ball out of his pint

 

[HawkeyeMS]

A drive with OOB tight to the right.

I've got a very strange way of dealing with tee shots with OOB down one side. If it's down the left I'll try to hit a draw, if it's down the right I'll try to hit a fade. i.e towards the OOB. Don't know why, just feels right.

 

[rosecott]

Ball lying about a foot from the fringe of the green nestled down in deep grass that is growing towards you, with the pin about 3 foot on.

You can't putt it, because it's sitting too deep. You just know you can't quit on it. But you do. And move it about 6 inches and it settles even deeper. And you still can't putt. How to make yourself look a prat in 1 easy lesson.
This scenario is usually followed by a helicoptered sand wedge.

You can borrow my chipper for that shot

 

[Slicer30]

I disagree.

The scariest shot is the one you have to hit after you have shanked it.

100% agree with that! I would add every iron shot for the remainder of the round!

 

[NWJocko]

I've got a very strange way of dealing with tee shots with OOB down one side. If it's down the left I'll try to hit a draw, if it's down the right I'll try to hit a fade. i.e towards the OOB. Don't know why, just feels right.

I do this aswell.

Rason I do it was a "pro tip" in one of the mags as you're actually lining up and hitting away from the trouble to start with. Made sense to me so do it all the time now.

 

[chrisd]

Downhill in a bunker with one foot in it and the other leg folded up and unusable on the side, with the pin only 4ft away and a sloping green away from you.


Chris

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Downhill in a bunker with one foot in it and the other leg folded up and unusable on the side, with the pin only 4ft away and a sloping green away from you.


Chris

Childs play. Blade it and watch it run up the face into the air and cosy 3 feet away and knock the putt in. Exactly how I played it last week although I was actually trying to hit it properly. Not how but how many. And it isn't the one after the shank, its the one after that and the one after that. You can hear the ticking but never know when its going to stop and then BOOM! straight right again

 

[USER1999]

Hit a straight shank today. The holy grail of shanking. So far out of the hozel, I hit the sweet spot. Nasty noise though, and feel? Horrible.

 

[chris661]

Hit a straight shank today. The holy grail of shanking. So far out of the hozel, I hit the sweet spot. Nasty noise though, and feel? Horrible.

Surprisingly I managed to abuse the sweetspot today (when I say sweetspot I mean clubface)

 

[JustOne]

Without doubt the hardest shot in golf is....


teeing off in front of a group of fellow FORUM MEMBERS! ....just ask Bobmac!