Strange/lucky shots?

[granters]

I just saw the old video of Darren Clarke's luckiest shot ever- lucky b*stard

It reminded me of one i hit a few years ago at Gleddoch in West Scotchland.

I think it was the 16th, a tiny par 3 with a pond in front of the green.

I took out a wedge and promptly heavied it. It was headed striaght into the middle of the pond, and even while it was in the air i was taking a provisonal out of my pocket. As the ball descended, and my score with it, imagine my surprise when it hit the middle of the pond and bounced 15feet straight back into the air, hopped onto the fringe or the green and trundled to 2 inches for an easy 2.

To this day i still haven't the foggiest how it happened but i always have a wry smile remembering my playing partners face. I finished 4th in the tournament too by the odd shot.

Anything like that ever happened to you?

 

[Smiffy]

Not to me, but playing at St Mellion on Tuesday afternoon got to the 14th, par 3.
My mate, Ray Taylor (who is the spawniest golfer going) was leading our little competition, I was in 2nd place closing the gap.
He hit an iron, don't know what it was, and pulled it big time left. There is a cart path that goes all the way down the left hand side of the hole with some steps leading down towards the green. He hit the bank, the ball bounced up onto the steps and proceeded to clonk down, rolled across the green and finished no more than 6" from the hole for a "gimme" birdie two. When things like that happen you know it's not going to be your day for closing gaps.
It was also Ray Taylor who holed his second tee shot at a par 3 at Royal Cinque Ports after pulling his first one miles left into the crap. 3 for 3 and a hole in one with his second ball....he won that day too

 

[Bacardibatman]

back in the day playing with a friend in a club junior knock out matchplay comp & we'd been drawn against eachother

11th hole 360 ish

he completely block slices his drive way right into the trees & you could hear its hitting all kinds of trees
i hit mine in centre of the fairway

get up there have a hunt around for the ball for a cpl of minutes i spot it to find he's almost out of the trees (how the hell it got there god only knows) just in the semi, overhanging branch only just if at all(but in his mind) in way of his swing about 150/60 left

he duffs a 5 or 6 i about 70/80 yrds ,short in a massive dip thats usually wet, bounces up the dip runs 40-50yrds onto the green & smack into the flag & drops in the hole for eagle

i hit an goodish/ok iron to about 15-20 feet i seem to remember 2 good shots vs 2 very poor ones & i come off loosing the hole


some guys have all the luck

 

[CMAC]

A friends wee boy (10yrs old) on the 17th on the queens course, 210yd par 3, he skittered his driver and it rolled and rolled up and down the undulations, onto the green and dropped in for a hole in one!

 

[EZprophet]

There's a par 3 course at the driving range I go to and a few months ago on the 2nd hole I was playing with my mate and got my first ever hole in one (though it's only a 70 yard hole so doesn't count as a proper one) Hit a little SW pitch shot which I struck perfectly, never left the line of the pin and hit the pin and landed in the hole.

Anyways, the next week me and my mate went around the course again and of course when I stepped up to the second tee he started giving me all the chat about how I'd better stick it close, prove it wasn't lucky etc etc. Sure enough I set up and completely thinned it and flew the green by about 20 yards. It was heading towards this wooden gate on the walking trail behind the green, it smacked it bang on, shot backwards into the ground and proceeded to roll up a bank, over a mound and then onto the back of the green, slowing up as it approached the hole, looking like it was destined to go in... it missed the cup by about 6 inches and came to rest about a foot from the cup.

It's definitely my lucky hole!

 

[Imurg]

My first club was a 9-holer. To the left of the first hole was OB, a cows field always heaving with Freisans.....
At the start of a Medal one day, my playing partner snap-hooks his tee shot. The ball screams through the bush, hits a poor Freisan's rear-end and scuttles back into play.
The cow was across the other side of the field before we picked ourselves up off the floor......