ArnoldArmChewer
Tour Winner
Highway 1 from LA to San Francisco, stunning views.
whats your best drive ever
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Crawfy
Tour Rookie
Not my longest, but the one I enjoyed the most :
The Gloria (New) Course, Belek last summer. The tee was set back in the trees, a narrow corridor out with water down the right.
The sun was shining, course was empty and I nailed it. The echo from the hit was brilliant, and the ball split the immaculate fairway
I will prob never get to Augusta, but that moment felt like it to me
Booking up again for 2013...canny wait !!!
The Gloria (New) Course, Belek last summer. The tee was set back in the trees, a narrow corridor out with water down the right.
The sun was shining, course was empty and I nailed it. The echo from the hit was brilliant, and the ball split the immaculate fairway
I will prob never get to Augusta, but that moment felt like it to me
Booking up again for 2013...canny wait !!!
HickoryShaft
Tour Rookie
My next one ...... at least in my mind it will be.
Nice contact, drop in just short of the ditch leaving an easy 8 iron to the green. Well thats the plan now to go do it
Nice contact, drop in just short of the ditch leaving an easy 8 iron to the green. Well thats the plan now to go do it
Andy
Tour Winner
Got to agree. Once done the weight just lifts and you float to your ball. The feeling of a good score is tremendous.
Roll on the spring again.
That must have been one hell of a round!
Once played a 40-50 yard chip-and-run into the 500-yard par-5 9th at Addington Palace in Surrey.
The hole plays flat for about 300 yards to a crest in the fairway before dropping down to the green, and that summer the fairways were baked hard and running like the west-facing runway at Gatwick (they might have fairway watering now, not sure). My ball got to the crest and then just trundled on for another 150 or so yards. Some people in the field drove the green that day.
Can't remember what I made - 5, I expect.
Don't normally average 450 I have to say... 390 would be closer to the truth (divided by 2 before Tappers or Mike have their say!)
The hole plays flat for about 300 yards to a crest in the fairway before dropping down to the green, and that summer the fairways were baked hard and running like the west-facing runway at Gatwick (they might have fairway watering now, not sure). My ball got to the crest and then just trundled on for another 150 or so yards. Some people in the field drove the green that day.
Can't remember what I made - 5, I expect.
Don't normally average 450 I have to say... 390 would be closer to the truth (divided by 2 before Tappers or Mike have their say!)
DCB
Well-known member
Got to be the first hole at Machrihanish. It's an awe inspiring opening drive. With the tide well up the beach and the prevailing westerly wind blowing across your line it takes a special golf shot to hit the fairway whilst judging your line across the sea and beach to perfection.
Andy
Tour Winner
We'll get some action shots in March Dave.
Aztecs27
Money List Winner
Standing on the 1st at any forum meet and not knobbing it
This. Especially when you're 1st to tee off in the 1st group of the day with a whole host of knobs looking on from the practice green/clubhouse balcony with your bright, white driver that you were given by GM. I can honestly say I've never been so petrified as I was stood on that tee. The fact I got the drive off ok, and straight, is fine with me. It ran into the ditch, but I don't care, you couldn't see that for sure from the tee
Took a 3 iron in the afternoon and knobbed that though!
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I had a playing lesson on the back 9 of the Brabazon, off the white tees, a few years back. On the 18th I was advised to aim at the left edge of the bunker and play for a draw. I did that and hit it perfectly leaving me only an 8 iron into the green.
That was probably my best drive as it did exactly as I envisioned it.
Others would be like people have said about hitting it into the middle of the 18th fairway when on for our personal best round. I did that the other year when level par I hit a perfect fading 3 wood setting me up for easy par.
That was probably my best drive as it did exactly as I envisioned it.
Others would be like people have said about hitting it into the middle of the 18th fairway when on for our personal best round. I did that the other year when level par I hit a perfect fading 3 wood setting me up for easy par.
mattdeeks
Challenge Tour Pro
Nearly drove the green @ Wycombe Heights Par 4 18th. Downhill all the way, still a tough hole, ended up 4 metres from the green. Chuffed to bits. Then duffed the pitch, 3 putts and walking off with a 5.
bluewolf
Money List Winner
Well, ive just driven from Wigan to Paris, and back again in 72 hours... Now that was not the best drive ever...
The best was probably in a match against a scratch player at my club. Great guy and we were all square going up te 18th with the sun dropping. We both hit crackers up our 18th which is a 430yd uphill par 4. One ball was 30 yards in front of the other. We approached the first ball and the guy starts chatting to me about his holiday. This goes on for about a minute before I gently remind him that it's his ball that we are stood at. Mine was the one in front. The look on his face was priceless, especially when he then stuck his to about 15ft and I stiffed mine to 2ft. Cue victory...
The best was probably in a match against a scratch player at my club. Great guy and we were all square going up te 18th with the sun dropping. We both hit crackers up our 18th which is a 430yd uphill par 4. One ball was 30 yards in front of the other. We approached the first ball and the guy starts chatting to me about his holiday. This goes on for about a minute before I gently remind him that it's his ball that we are stood at. Mine was the one in front. The look on his face was priceless, especially when he then stuck his to about 15ft and I stiffed mine to 2ft. Cue victory...
Brookesy
Head Pro
A 4 iron which i hit perfect down our last in the club championship last year, water on the left and trees on the right and i needed a solid tee shot and i hit it beatifully under pressure
TriggerTech
Head Pro
The time I topped it - but at least it went past the reds!
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
Not the longest drive I've ever hit, but the one that gave me most pleasure was my opening tee shot at the Castle Stuart meet the year before last. I'd watched quite a few people teeing off and was a little apprehensive after travelling all that way. Managed to hit a sweet drive straight down the middle. Can't remember what I was hitting in now, it wasn't a lot. But I managed to stick the green and two putt for a regulation par.
Came out of the traps like a whippet, but sadly cocked up at the 7th (long par 4, SI1) after caning a drive up there I blocked my second shot right into some gorse and couldn't find my ball. Walked off with a 7 and then cocked up the following par 3. Wind came out of the sails and I never did get my game back that day.
Shame. But I enjoyed the 1st hole (and the following 5).
Came out of the traps like a whippet, but sadly cocked up at the 7th (long par 4, SI1) after caning a drive up there I blocked my second shot right into some gorse and couldn't find my ball. Walked off with a 7 and then cocked up the following par 3. Wind came out of the sails and I never did get my game back that day.
Shame. But I enjoyed the 1st hole (and the following 5).
sev112
Tour Winner
Few years back, Goulcetser Golf and Country Club, or whatever its now called.
Highways Agency golf day, uphill longest drive.
Just connected really well, wasnt going for it, beat the marker by 5 yards or so, but loads of people playing so no chance of winning.
Was a great sight me walking through the whole of the dining room after dinner full of "real" golfers to pick up the longest drive trophy, which was almost as big as me , in my heels at 5ft 7 !
Highways Agency golf day, uphill longest drive.
Just connected really well, wasnt going for it, beat the marker by 5 yards or so, but loads of people playing so no chance of winning.
Was a great sight me walking through the whole of the dining room after dinner full of "real" golfers to pick up the longest drive trophy, which was almost as big as me , in my heels at 5ft 7 !
Hoping the driver will behave on Saturday in the winter knockout 2nd round with Hawkeye. Been a bit hit and miss of late but win this and we're in the quarter finals. I'm predicting a great drive at the 12th, SI 1 to set up a par, win the hole and put us on the road to glory.
EZprophet
Head Pro
Without a doubt it's the opening drive I hit while played with Rory McIlroy. Wrote about it already in the "golf pictures" section of the forum but not surprisingly it's a story I am not yet bored of telling! (though you soon may be bored of hearing about it!)
It was on the 1st tee at Port Royal golf club in Bermuda and it's a 395 yard par 4 with an almost 90 degree dog leg right on it. The green is about 100+ feet below the tee box with a lake next to it and surrounded by 3 bunkers. There were about 100 people following Rory around and I have never, ever been that nervous on a golf course before.
The format for the pro-am was captains choice (a scramble) and Rory had hit a great 5 iron down to the corner of the dog leg, and my dad had hit a great driver to the same place. Obviously with the format there was no need for me to try to hit my ball to the same spot (especially since, because the pro plays his own ball throughout, if you decide to not use the pros shot at any point, you no longer get to use him on the hole) so the young caddies from the junior golf program convinced me to have a crack at the green. We picked out a house in the distance (you can't see the green from the tee due to the trees) and I took aim and fired. I could tell I gad caught the ball sweet but I didn't actually see it at all. The crowd were silent and nobody in my group said "good shot" so I had no idea where it was going to end up. Rory said "well... we'll see" with a little smile and we walked off down the fairway.
Our young group of caddies bounded down ahead of us to see where my ball had ended up and as I got to the corner of the dogleg I saw my caddie walking towards me with a big smile on his face and my putter in his hand... I had hit the green!
I wasn't near Rory at this point but one of the other guys from my group said that when he got around the corner he looked at the green and said "are you kidding me? is that his ball?!" I just measured the carry on google earth and it was around 350 yards from the tee box to the front of the green. While I was repairing my crater sized pitch mark on the green Rory walked past and said "nice drive" which was definitely my coolest ever golfing moment.
The ball finished about 40 feet from the hole and while I left my putt about 10 feet short, my dad put his to about 3 feet and we made a birdie. The cool thing was that aside from the fact that I hit a great first drive in front of Rory while probably the most nervous I've ever been, on its own the drive itself would have been one of the best shots I've ever hit (the ex-pro at the club actually said that he had never heard of anyone ever driving the green on that hole) Though to be honest its not surprising, as if it hadn't had been captains choice AND Rory and my dad didn't already have balls in the fairway, there is no way in hell that I would have even thought about going for it. So yeah, I guess I'm glad now that my dad hit's it so short and straight!
It was on the 1st tee at Port Royal golf club in Bermuda and it's a 395 yard par 4 with an almost 90 degree dog leg right on it. The green is about 100+ feet below the tee box with a lake next to it and surrounded by 3 bunkers. There were about 100 people following Rory around and I have never, ever been that nervous on a golf course before.
The format for the pro-am was captains choice (a scramble) and Rory had hit a great 5 iron down to the corner of the dog leg, and my dad had hit a great driver to the same place. Obviously with the format there was no need for me to try to hit my ball to the same spot (especially since, because the pro plays his own ball throughout, if you decide to not use the pros shot at any point, you no longer get to use him on the hole) so the young caddies from the junior golf program convinced me to have a crack at the green. We picked out a house in the distance (you can't see the green from the tee due to the trees) and I took aim and fired. I could tell I gad caught the ball sweet but I didn't actually see it at all. The crowd were silent and nobody in my group said "good shot" so I had no idea where it was going to end up. Rory said "well... we'll see" with a little smile and we walked off down the fairway.
Our young group of caddies bounded down ahead of us to see where my ball had ended up and as I got to the corner of the dogleg I saw my caddie walking towards me with a big smile on his face and my putter in his hand... I had hit the green!
I wasn't near Rory at this point but one of the other guys from my group said that when he got around the corner he looked at the green and said "are you kidding me? is that his ball?!" I just measured the carry on google earth and it was around 350 yards from the tee box to the front of the green. While I was repairing my crater sized pitch mark on the green Rory walked past and said "nice drive" which was definitely my coolest ever golfing moment.
The ball finished about 40 feet from the hole and while I left my putt about 10 feet short, my dad put his to about 3 feet and we made a birdie. The cool thing was that aside from the fact that I hit a great first drive in front of Rory while probably the most nervous I've ever been, on its own the drive itself would have been one of the best shots I've ever hit (the ex-pro at the club actually said that he had never heard of anyone ever driving the green on that hole) Though to be honest its not surprising, as if it hadn't had been captains choice AND Rory and my dad didn't already have balls in the fairway, there is no way in hell that I would have even thought about going for it. So yeah, I guess I'm glad now that my dad hit's it so short and straight!
JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
Bored? I don't think so! I could listen to that story many more times.... type it again!
iku
Head Pro
Not long (240yds) but a perfect draw around a dog leg with oob on the left on the first hole at my club. It looked like it was tracing the centreline of the fairway all the way and ended up in the best possible spot to play my second shot.
I guess the best thing was that it did exactly what I had in mind and with the driver it's an extremely rare event.
I guess the best thing was that it did exactly what I had in mind and with the driver it's an extremely rare event.
