Your best fairway bunker shot

[ScienceBoy]

OK one of the hardest bunker shots to play well so here is a place to recount your best:

To start everyone off I have my 5 wood today on 16...

About 195 yards uphill into the wind from a good clean lie with little lip to go over. The ball was well below my feet so I took this into account. I hit a rising pretty looking shot that faded into the pin and finished about 3 feet past. I rolled that putt in for a very surprising birdie!

Knocked off my previous best of a PW to about 10 feet from about 110 yards

 

[GB72]

16th Hole at Rutland Water, 180 yard hybrid from the fairway bunker to 6ft and sunk the putt for birdie.

 

[HickoryShaft]

Maybe not my best shot but the most memorable:

Port of Goole golf day at the Ashes course.

Played tee to fairway bunker, fairway bunker to the next one (only 50 yards), this then to the next fairway bunker when trying to lay up before a ditch, from here to a green side bunker.

Nice shot out of the bunker and one putt for a six (par 5).

All the way down a par 5 without touching grass

Two points on the card and we won the comp by one

 

[Imurg]

Honestly can't remember the last time I was in a fairway bunker. We don't have many and I can't recall being in one elsewhere for ages..

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Hit a great 7 iron from the one on the right of our 9th to within 6 feet last year for a birdie which was pleasing. HTL hit a great one when we won our Jubilee Cup last year from the left of the 3rd to about 4 feet and another birdie. Hawkeye and I played with our pro last Saturday and he found the fairway bunker on 14. Wind against and about 180 to go and he hit an iron to about 6 inches which was pretty impressive (he was on my side so I was doubly happy)

 

[Bratty]

Now this is not as impressive as "put it to 6 foot" or "3 foot", but to be honest, it's a damn sight more meaningful to me.

I was playing with my then-girlfriend's father (who plays off 8, and one of his sons is a teaching pro) at his place in Ireland. We'd played a few times before and never really impressed him with my golf.

1st is a huge par 5 uphill into strong wind, and I decided to bury my tee shot into a fairway bunker some 290 yards from the green. It's a blind shot out up the hill and slightly left.

So I grab my 5 wood and head into the bunker. "What are you doing with that?" he asks me. "You'll never make it out with that. And you'll never make the green, so just take a sensible 7 iron.".

"Watch this. It's my favourite shot with this club" says I, having never really played one before!

And proceed to smash the hell out of it, getting it 180 yards up the middle of the fairway, and leaving my a lovely easy iron in for potential birdie.

"Great shot!" he said. "NOW you've proved you're worthy of marrying my daughter when you ask".

And I did marry her 2 years later!

 

[ScienceBoy]

Maybe not my best shot but the most memorable:

Port of Goole golf day at the Ashes course.

Played tee to fairway bunker, fairway bunker to the next one (only 50 yards), this then to the next fairway bunker when trying to lay up before a ditch, from here to a green side bunker.

Nice shot out of the bunker and one putt for a six (par 5).

All the way down a par 5 without touching grass

Two points on the card and we won the comp by one

Here is one for you to beat at Grimsby Hickory...

12th hole, bunker on the right by the trees. I hit a 6 iron to the heart of the green once. The one and only fairway bunker shot that came off in my youth as a golfer!

 

[richart]

Never played a memorable fairway bunker shot. How sad is that.

 

[HRC99]

Playing dreadfully at Forest Pines and getting my arse handed to me, I ended up in a fairway bunker and thought of Seve hitting that 3 wood out of a bunker.

I was playing so badly I thought "What the hell" and absolutely nailed it.

Sadly, it instilled a belief that I had now actually mastered the 3 wood out of the bunker shot which then took me about another 10 utterly failed attempts to work out that the first one was just complete fluke.

 

[MashieNiblick]

After duffing my approach into the cross bunker 70 yards short of our 18th green during a club match I holed out from the sand for an unlikely match winning birdie. "Jaws" and "dropped" were the the words that sprang to mind to describe the reaction of our opponents. I also got a mention at the post match dinner for shot of the day.

 

[HickoryShaft]

"Great shot!" he said. "NOW you've proved you're worthy of marrying my daughter when you ask".

And I did marry her 2 years later!

Most expensive golf shot ever played !!!!


Sorry mate couldnt resist

 

[HickoryShaft]

Here is one for you to beat at Grimsby Hickory...

12th hole, bunker on the right by the trees. I hit a 6 iron to the heart of the green once. The one and only fairway bunker shot that came off in my youth as a golfer!

Nice shot.

I have managed to get one in the heart of the ditch from the same spot

 

[Bratty]

"Great shot!" he said. "NOW you've proved you're worthy of marrying my daughter when you ask".

And I did marry her 2 years later!

Most expensive golf shot ever played !!!!


Sorry mate couldnt resist

No problem... you're so right!

 

[EZprophet]

My best fairway bunker shot is also what I think of as the best shot I've ever hit.

It was on the par 5 18th hole at a course called Hawksridge in Atlanta, GA (pictured). I had hit my drive into that far bunker in the middle group of the bunkers on the right side of the picture. I had a good lie in the bunker but was on a big downslope and had 218 yards to the pin.

I had layed up every single time I'd played the hole so far and my caddie was handing me my sand wedge and advising I do the same today, but this was our last round and figured I'd go for it. I'd been hitting the ball well all day and for some reason I just knew I was going to hit the green. I pulled out my 5 iron and just thought about Tigers fairway bunker tip about "standing tall" and swung smooth. Sure enough landed just on the front of the green and settled about 15 feet from th pin. The caddie said he had never seen anyone hit the green from that bunker before (brag!!)Dont know how the putt didnt drop as it looked in all the way but still goes down as the best shot I've ever hit.

 

[bigbazzaboy]

I've been lucky enough to only have been in 2 bunkers that left me any real distance to the green.

First one was about 100 yards shot of the 18th green at Royal Musselburgh. After pig-headedly hitting 2 8irons that caught the lip of the bunker I accepted I needed more loft so got my PW and took the risk of catching it clean off the sand in order to get it to the green. Thankfully it worked and I putted out to escape with a double bogey 6.

Other one was a couple of weeks ago on the 2nd at Rouken Glen. Teed my drive too low and it stayed an inch off the deck for the first 80 yards, unfortunately the fairway is sloped and when it hit the ground it sloped to the right and rolled into the bunker. Left me a good 160 to the green, luckily ball was sitting nicely, bunker wasn't very deep and all you need to do is aim towards the 3rd tee and let the slope take it back towards the green. Hit a 6iron and caught it nice, enough loft to get it out, enough power to get it to the green and got it in the air high enough that it would land soft enough to take the pace of it and make sure there wasn't a risk of it running off the back of the green which is something the green is famous for.