What is your greatest recovery story?

[Doon frae Troon]

Playing in the Wiltshire Team championship at Salisbury about 25 years ago.
I was the weakest player in the team and drawn with one of the counties young guns.
I had a really scrambely first round 77 which I was not disappointed with as the young gun was 72.
Started playing really well in second round and caught up a couple of shots.
At the 9th [I think] I totally knurdled a drive into unplayable gorse and blackthorn.
The reload was a massive slice which was sailing out of bounds behind the race course OOB until it hit a furlong post and rebounded back into play on the gallops.
7 iron to the heart of the green and a nice ten footer for a bogey five.....thank you very much.
Finished second round about 5 over to have both scores counting.

 

[rickg]

playing in a medal in the freezing cold and pouring rain.....I was off 8 at the time.....front 9 I was already 9 over........the rain got worse, the wind blew harder, and I dug deep!!!........from somewhere, still not sure where, I shot a 1 under back 9 to get back to level handicap. I still class it as the best 9 holes of golf I have ever played.

 

[Imurg]

2 Medal comebacks.
First was at my old club years ago.
1st is a par 4 about 400 yards.
I took 8.
then played the next 17 in 2 under to shoot 71 gross and win by 5 shots....

2nd was a couple of years back - I hooked deep into thick bundu on our 13th par 5.
managed to find it and hacked out with a wedge - a bit further than I thought I could
a Career Hybrid to 8 feet and a sunk putt and I had a birdie..

 

[richart]

Played my one and only 36 hole medal competition at Blackmoor. Started on the 10th, and holed a lovely downhill 12 footer for a nine. Great start to the day, but managed to play the other 17 holes in another five over, and got a handicap cut. My playing partner took 13 on the same hole in the afternoon, and he mananged a handicap cut as well.

 

[EuanRoss]

Think my favourite would have to have been in the 4-day-open at Cullen a few years back. It's two rounds medal qualifying and then matchplay on days three and four. Shot 14 over on first day, played like a pig. Proceeded to go and get mortally drunk that night and showed up on day 2 only for there to be an hour delay to proceedings due to fog. Shot 3 over, chipping in on the last to make cut right on the line. Think without the hour delay to sober up a wee bit there would've been no chance.

 

[SAPCOR1]

One recent one that springs to mind ....

Playing myself caught up with some juniors looking for a ball so they let me pay through

Poor tee shot went left into rough under a tree. Poor lie, branches in front and behind me. About 145 from the flag. Selected my 3 rescue and it flew through the air like an arrow to land about three feet from the pin.

The three juniors just looked at me in awe as I strolled off like it was normal ....

Birdie!

 

[woody69]

All square on the 18th, which was a par 3, He goes first and get's a hole in 1. Cue lots of jumping around and whoops of joy. Knowing I have to get a birdie to square the match I hit the sweetest strike of my life. 2 bounces and it goes in as well, for net 0, the hole and the match.

 

[Tommo21]

Just to qualify for the club championships at Dunbar was a major for me. Just got in on 149 after rounds of 73 and 76. Played a scratch golfer in the first round of the last 16 knockout. I squandered a one hole lead up 18 to go sudden death. Down the par 5 first and we both hit good drives, I play first and decide to lay up short of the stream but I flush the shot with draw and the ball runs in the water. My opponent goes for the green but he also dumps it in the stream. Both of us fish out the balls and I notice he was dropping his ball real quick, so I intentionally drop mine further back to play first. On tight links turf I nip my closed face 58 degree wedge into 18 inches. He puts his 15 foot by the pin and misses the putt. Job done and a big East Lothian scalp for Tommo.

 

[Joff]

Just to qualify for the club championships at Dunbar was a major for me. Just got in on 149 after rounds of 73 and 76. Played a scratch golfer in the first round of the last 16 knockout. I squandered a one hole lead up 18 to go sudden death. Down the par 5 first and we both hit good drives, I play first and decide to lay up short of the stream but I flush the shot with draw and the ball runs in the water. My opponent goes for the green but he also dumps it in the stream. Both of us fish out the balls and I notice he was dropping his ball real quick, so I intentionally drop mine further back to play first. On tight links turf I nip my closed face 58 degree wedge into 18 inches. He puts his 15 foot by the pin and misses the putt. Job done and a big East Lothian scalp for Tommo.

Nice use of a matchplay brain!