Best shots you have ever hit or seen!!

The_Kew_Tour

seen (on tv)
1. tiger chip in at the 16th in masters think it was around 2006 what a shot
2. sergio garcia shot against trees in the 98 uspga some slice to get it on green think it was on 17th on final day.

my own
remember hitting a PW to 1 foot (on 18th) in the semi final of my local matchplay competition to win by 1 hole. I hit it five feet past and spin back to foot felt like tiger woods for couple seconds anyway:)

have hit few others but that felt best and remembered most as there was lot at stake and was only 16 at time up against big boys in club then.

Never have got hole in one in all years of playing play of 5 now so hopefully some day.

Anyway whats the best shots you guys have seen or played?

One Cold Hand

Funny when I saw the thread title they were the first two shots that popped into my head! Great minds think alike!

For myself, it was in the Barton last year.
We were 4up at the turn, but lost 10,11 and 12, and the pair we were playing were on a roll. My partner was a young lad, 16 or so. Good golfer, off 5 or something, but a bit inexperinced. He thought we had the game won after 9.
Anyway 13 was a long downhill par 3, 220 yards. They stood up and put a wood on the green, about 25 feet away. My partner got a bit rattled, and hooked it way left, leaving me in the middle of a load of trees, in the rough. Also had to come over a bunker to get at the pin. I reckoned they would get par, so had to go straight at the pin to try and give us a chance of a half. Never even thought I'd pull it off, but left it stone dead. They 3 putted, we went 2 up, when it should have been level, and went on to win the match.
Such a great feeling when it's in the air and you think you've hit it well. But you only know when it lands just beyond the bunker, and runs up to the hole. There's that split second, when the ball is in the air, that seems to last about 5 minutes, and you're just holding your breath, and praying! Those type of shots are why I play golf. You might only hit 3 of them in a year, but all the terrible shots are worth it just to enjoy that one good one!

rigal

The best (amateur) shot I've seen was hit by a friend of mine in Tulfarris.

He was playing his second shot on the up hill, par 5, 9th. Wind was against and he was c. 250 yards from the green. He pulls his 8.5 degree driver out of the bag gives us a bit of a smirk and creams it off the deck onto the green to 15 feet :eek:.

He plays off 3 but was still embarassed at how ridiculous a shot he had just played. We all just stood there in shock laughing for about 5 minutes after.

ShriekingSheet

Playing Scratch Matchplay semi-final in South County a few years ago against the best golfer in the club off 1. Was 3 down after 6. Chipped in on 9 to get to 2 down and won 10 and 12 to get back to all square.

13 is a par 5, dogleg right. As it happens we caught my dad in a 4 ball ahead of us and they called us through on our second shots. He laid up just short. I went for it with a 3 iron. Nailed it straight at the flag but it fell short and plugged under the lip of the bunker.

He pitched to 10 feet. With my dad and three of his mates around the green I opened up my lob wedge (closed my eyes probably) and blasted it up over the lip so high that it stopped dead, a foot from the hole.

He missed and I went 1 up and then beat him 3 & 2.


One of the best shots I ever saw was Garcia's 3 wood on the Par 5 when he won his first tournament in Druids Glenn.

Funny thing is, I met him on holiday last week in a pub in Ibiza! He was actually very chatty to me and my missus and I said to him I remembered his win (as I'm Irish) and the 3 wood he hit. He recounted his own memory of it quite exitedly. It was pretty cool to see him talk like that - like any of us do about our good shots. I'm sure the fact that I was probably one of the few people on the Island that would know who he is meant he was more open to talk golf to a stranger than usual but he came across like a really nice guy.

JerryHandbag

Yep Tigers chip in at the 16th in the 05 Mastes had me out of my chair, astonishing moment, for once the reaction of the typically over-the-top USA golf commentators was justified!

On a personal level, I'm not sure youd call it the BEST shot I ever hit, but definitley the most memorable....i was about 11/12, a puny slip of a young fella, playing my local par 3 course and i topped a 4-iron 150 yards down a hill in a straight line and all the way into the hole for an ace. My reaction and that of my brother and father was to fall around the place laughin. Always remembered that, a 4-iron at the 4th hole. Happy days

kincsem

The best shot by a pro was Hale Irwin's long iron to the 72nd green to win the US Open [at Winged Foot (?) by one shot (?)]

Irwin's first and last U.S. Open titles each produced defining moments. The '74 Open has come to be known as "The Massacre at Winged Foot" for the incredibly tough conditions and high scores. Irwin survived, winning at 7-over-par after hitting a famous 2-iron approach to the No. 18 green.

My best was as a teenager on the old nine hole Enniscrone course in the early 1970s. I had never broken 40 for nine, but that day I parred the first five, all with a chip and a putt. Then a strong wind got up with heavy rain. People were abandoning. The 6th was usually a drive and 7 iron. My drive didn't reach the fairway. I hit a low four wood straight into the wind and rain to twelve feet and holed the putt. I scrambled the last four holes and had a one over 37.

madds

ShriekingSheet wrote: »

Funny thing is, I met him on holiday last week in a pub in Ibiza! He was actually very chatty to me and my missus and I said to him I remembered his win (as I'm Irish) and the 3 wood he hit. He recounted his own memory of it quite exitedly. It was pretty cool to see him talk like that - like any of us do about our good shots. I'm sure the fact that I was probably one of the few people on the Island that would know who he is meant he was more open to talk golf to a stranger than usual but he came across like a really nice guy.

Wow. I wonder if he's still seeing Greg Norman's daughter? Any sign of her around?

Best pro shot is one of the earliest I can recall. Christy Jnr's 2-iron to the 18th green in the Belfry in the '85 Ryder Cup. I can vividly remember the pressure COC was under going going to the Belfry as a lot of the British media felt Sandy Lyle should have been picked - Mr. Lyle wasn't shy about putting himself ahead of COC either.

Anyway, that 2-iron will always stand out as he was playing Freddie Couples who was one of the top players in the world at the time, and also for O'Connor's celebrations afterwards and the thanks he offered to the Big Fela upstairs.

Hard to say what was the best amateur shot I saw, but the series of shots my younger bro hit to win his match and help Lucan win the All-Ireland Junior Cup back in Shannon GC back in 2004 stand out.

Kimbot

This is just unreal.


Best shot I hit is a putt:
1st was a putt..... first hole par 4, off the green on the 3rd with about 30-35 foot to the pin. Lined up the putt hoping at best for it to go in and at worst to leave a 2 footer for the bogey. Took my practice swing and just went for it. Held my breath took the swing and away it went. It picked up more and morepace as it was heading to the hole, I thought it was gone well passed only for the fact it started to slow, hit the pin and dropped in.

Put me in superb mood and scored my best score to date.