Whats the best 3 shots you've ever seen?

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For me it has to be these three, there are stacks more i can think of (i feel guilty leaving Jack Nicklaus' 1 iron at the 17th Pebble Beach out) but i've settled on these:

1st - '87 Masters, Larry Mize chips in from about 140ft at the 11th for birdie. Astonishing shot and the classic risk/reward shot. Get it wrong and its swimming!!!

2nd - '05 Masters, Tigers chip in on the 16th. Really hard pressed not to give this top spot but there's nowhere near as much risk involved as Larry's. The perfect example of ball control and how to read greens!

3rd - '08 Open, Pod's 2nd on the 17th from 270yds with a 3w to within 6ft of the pin. Again, astonishing risk/reward shot and just shows what Pod is capable of! Unbelievable shot!
 
I would have to disagree with your top choice there fella.
Tigers chip in was much, much better than Mize's.
Mizes ball went in the hole like a rat up a drainpipe, had he missed it he would have been left with an awfully long putt.
Tigers on the other hand was brilliant in it's execution.
That shot was without doubt the best golf shot I have ever seen in my life
Rob
 
I know what you're saying, however consider the fact that Mize knew Greg Norman had a putt for a birdie, it was a play off in The Masters so he knew he had to either hole it or leave it very very very close. The chip itself was horrendous as the green slopes away to the water and the green was lightning fast. Very much a do or die situation.

Tigers was utterly amazing in its execution as i have already mentioned, however he had no danger of blowing a major had it not gone in did he?

I have to go with Mize, if nothing else then for the guts he had to make the shot the way he did.
 
however he had no danger of blowing a major had it not gone in did he?

I have to go with Mize, if nothing else then for the guts he had to make the shot the way he did.
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Then I think you have to put Rocca's put on the 18th at St Andrew's in here too. He had just chilli dipped a chip and could so easily have completely fallen apart, but he had the nuts to hole the next shot. OK, so he didn't win the play off, but imagine how it must have felt standing over that putt.
 
My top three are a little different.
Number one for pure emotion and atmosphere.
Costantino Rocca, 1995 Open with his mahoosive putt through the valley of sin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7z9K7_N-zQ
Phil Mickelson and his wedge over the trees at colonial this year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A82Yli6lT4U

Tigers curly putt is right up there too so is probably worthy of the prestige of my no.3 (like it will really bother him!)
 
At the Forest of Arden one year, Olazabal played the first parachute lob I'd ever seen. Full swing with a lob wedge, the ball went 20 yards up and about 5 yards forward to stop dead by the pin.

Also at the Forest - could have been the same year - Ronan Rafferty played a mid iron at the 4th or 5th from 160 or so out. The ball stopped in its own pitch mark 1 inch from the hole.

Not a pro this one! My mate Andy and I were playing a match at the Harleyford against 2 very low handicap players. On their SI 1 hole, a downhill sweep left to right about 400 yards or so, they had placed their tee shots perfectly. I had hooked mine left and would struggle to reach the green. Andy had sliced his - as usual - and was on the tree line right without a sight of the green. He didn't know what to do. I looked at the line and pointed out a tree on the other side of the fairway but straight in front of him. " Get your 7 wood out and hit it hard to that tree" I said. " But i'll go in the trees" he said. "Trust me" I said. He hit the shot and it looked like disaster until the slice kicked in and the hill took over and the ball came up 18 inches short on the hole - for net 1!! They conceded the hole there and then. Wonderful shot!!!
 
1995 US Open- Corey Pavin fairway wood into final(?) green.
1996 Masters - Faldo long iron into 13th
2005 Masters - Tiger's chip on 16th.
 
1 - Tiger Woods chip in at 16 at 05 Masters
2 - Nick Faldo - 6 iron from only 140 yards at Royal Wimbledon - went low and then rose like a harrier jet and dropped 4 foot fromt he pin. Awesome power and control
3 - Tom Watson - 17th at Pebble Beach - dead in the US Open thick rough and no green to work with
 
Agree with Pavin's 4 wood at Shinnacock hills.

Harringtons second to 15th at birkdale to set up a two putt birdie, only man on sunday to reach the green in two.

lyles 7 iron bunker shot to win masters.

And from left field Woosies drive on 18 when he won the majors. He calculated that the best place off the fairway was left of the bunkers which would leave an easier shot to the green.
 
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