Best shot you've ever witnessed?

dan_ep82

Just curious, what was the best shot you've ever seen from a playing partner or from across the fairway?

The best I've seen was a 5i from 195yds to within 1.5ft of the pin on Headfort Old No.7 Par5 (476Yds) as a second shot. The drive was huge with no wind to help and it plays quite a bit uphill and he made the putt for Eagle.

I'm sure I'll see more the longer I play but it was great to watch it

FixdePitchmark

It is a good question.

Because many have watched pros in person. Including Woods.

So . There are many ways to look at it.

If we are talking playing partner. I'll think about it.

sky6

Seen a friend of mine hit a 2nd shot 3 wood in Tulfaris on a par 5 I think it was on hole 12 or 13. exactly 253 yds
( because we measured it ) to 5 ft right in front of the flag. He then missed the Eagle which was a pity.

ForeRight

Think it's the 12th in Westmanstown but not 100%.

Par 4 with the lake on the right before and alongside the green. It's about 290 yards but all danger off the tee if not just hitting a 7iron.

Anyway my playing partner just took out his driver and smash bang wallop into the hole for an albatross!

Competition round too and he got his hole in 1 club Hugo boss watch from howdidido

ForeRight

Slightly off topic but I seen a clatter of top shots one day in Killeen in a comp when my playing partner(a pal) walked off the 9th green -5 after 2 eagles and a birdie!

He finished -4 in the end. Plays off 1

unattendedbag

Damian Mooney's hole in one, 2013 irish open.

I wasn't the playing partner though.

slave1

My eagle from around 158yards out :P

Norfolk Enchants_

I once seen a fella rattle in a 3 inch putt for quadruple bogey, it was totally amazeballs.

FixdePitchmark

ForeRight wrote: »

Think it's the 12th in Westmanstown but not 100%.

Par 4 with the lake on the right before and alongside the green. It's about 290 yards but all danger off the tee if not just hitting a 7iron.

Anyway my playing partner just took out his driver and smash bang wallop into the hole for an albatross!

Competition round too and he got his hole in 1 club Hugo boss watch from howdidido

Now that wins.

ankles

7th (old 6th) at Mannan Castle. Its an uphill dogleg right to left, you hit straight up to a landing area and then knock in an iron which can be anything from a 5 to a 9 depending on how much draw you can get on the drive. Anyway off the yellows its about 350 yards. Up to a couple of years ago though the trees that blocked out the left had a gap in them which meant you could try and cut the corner. One day the wind was hard off the right which meant once you got to the top it was straight behind. I aimed for the gap hit with a touch of draw and just milled it. Felt it was somewhere short of the green but couldn't find it anywhere. Then a guy ran back from the next tee waving his hands and pointing at the green. Turned out the ball bounced just short of the green, leapt the bunker, ran across the front of the green and stopped on the back edge of the hole. They had been putting at the time and it ran between them. Have a print out of the pic in work, Made the eagle

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leonards

ankles wrote: »

7th (old 6th) at Mannan Castle. Its an uphill dogleg right to left, you hit straight up to a landing area and then knock in an iron which can be anything from a 5 to a 9 depending on how much draw you can get on the drive. Anyway off the yellows its about 350 yards. Up to a couple of years ago though the trees that blocked out the left had a gap in them which meant you could try and cut the corner. One day the wind was hard off the right which meant once you got to the top it was straight behind. I aimed for the gap hit with a touch of draw and just milled it. Felt it was somewhere short of the green but couldn't find it anywhere. Then a guy ran back from the next tee waving his hands and pointing at the green. Turned out the ball bounced just short of the green, leapt the bunker, ran across the front of the green and stopped on the back edge of the hole. They had been putting at the time and it ran between them. Have a print out of the pic in work, Made the eagle

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That was the best shot you never witnessed then...

ankles

leonards wrote: »

That was the best shot you never witnessed then...

I saw half of it :cool:

PARlance

I'm just waiting for someone to say that one of their own shots was the best they've seen. Then I'll say mine.

But I'm not going first

mike12

I'll do it then, held my second for a 2 on the par 5 16th in Enniscrone.

PARlance

Good man Mike

Mine came at the 16th in Corballis. 200+ yards into the wind for my approach and I absolutely nailed a hybrid.

As soon as contact was made I knew it was a beaut and I was watching it in slow-mo as it flew. Pitched a few yards short and rolled to two feet. Hairs were standing on the back of my neck after it. "Only" a tap in birdie but it's still gives me a buzz thinking about it.

ankles

mike12 wrote: »

I'll do it then, held my second for a 2 on the par 5 16th in Enniscrone.

I already had

FixdePitchmark

By an amateur -

2nd shot to 10 in Royal Dublin at the Irish Amateur in 2013 - it was by Gavin Moynihan.

Absolutely ridiculous conditions - actually torturous to watch lads off + 4 , + 2 , struggling to break 80.

We are talking winds 0f 15 m/s +, cross wind (like today). It is index 1, and after a big drive was still a low iron over water and played to hold the ball straight in cross wind.

About 180 - 190 yards out, incredible control and power to 8 feet. Main thing was the way ball held path.

Then next hole saw another brilliant shot by eventual winner Robbie Cannon.

Young Moynihan missed the putt - sums up golf. But, you could see it was golf at another level.

But , to be able to play in those conditions is an extraordinary skill , but in the overall scale of things, is that skill useful for the 90 % of other golf situations you will end up in ? Was a bit of a freak show.

Anyway - I'm out in that stuff in am.

DiegoWorst

The bunker shot Alan Thomas hit on the 19th hole of the deciding match in last year's Senior Cup final was spectacular. He all but holed the 30 yard shot, for the ball to back up to 8 feet. He duly rolled in the putt for the match winning birdie.

charlieIRL

I played in the same group as macker in carlow last year, must say every single shot was a joy to watch. Fantastic golf.

Golfgraffix

I would like to say my holed out 5w from 205 yards for eagle on the 7th at Portmarnock Links (deep inside i know I didn't catch it right and it was a fluke) but it did look good.

Best one I saw from a distance was Nick O'Hare (the irish swimmer). It was the 3rd hole on the blue nine at Hollystown, a par 5 dogleg left. Didn't see his drive but he cut the corner and holed out for albatross with the most perfect 8 I have ever seen.

J

DuckSlice

I knocked it too 2 feet on a 250 yard par 4. Best I've ever seen.

Shiraz 4.99

Here's a quare one.
I was about 90 yards out on the 15th in Tullamore years ago (was the 2nd hole back then).
Huge gusts of wind back into my face, you could barely stand.
Took a 6 iron, half swing punch off the back foot.
Never got more than 10 feet off the ground, landed 2 feet right of the pin where some crazy hook spin took it into the hole.

Oh, and saw Tiger Woods hit a 50 yard bunker shot to 6 inches in Mount Julliet. That was good too.

SevesThreeIron

Best by an amateur; pal of mine many moons ago hitting a 1-iron second shot to a foot or so on the par-5 7th at Slade Valley. He was 15 playing off five and gave it up shortly after for drink etc. Bloody waste.

Best by a pro: Dustin Johnson's hole in one on the 16th at Sandwich the year Clarke won the British Open. Nine iron with a bit of side spin right to left into the hole. Don't know if he got the Boss watch!

FixdePitchmark

And after all that (see last post) . I hit the same shot today 180 yard 4 iron into head / cross wind. 3 shots for everyone to reach green. I reached in 2. Best 4 iron in years. Missed 9 foot putt.

A nice karma.

I need to sort putting. Came 2nd. Count back.

dan_ep82

The reason I said witnessed instead of actually hit yourself was just for credibility, most wouldn't bother making up or exaggerating a shot for someone else, but now the door is open ..

18th in Rathcore
After a good drive i laid up to the water protecting the green. Then duffed the 8i into the water. Took a drop and holed out with a 60° from 65yds out for par

valoren

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

Oh, and saw Tiger Woods hit a 50 yard bunker shot to 6 inches in Mount Julliet. That was good too.

Same here.

Got a perfect spot on the 17th hole at Mount Juliet in 2002.

Calm as you like, Tiger tees it up, takes a leisurely practice swing with the driver, then nonchalantly bombs a 300+ yard baby draw down the middle of the fairway.

I was awestruck.

Loire

A friend of mine (off 5) in Ballybunion. Second shot on the par 5, 4th. Into a stiff wind he hits a majestic, low 3 iron onto the front of the green. I was standing behind him and caught the whole flight of it. There and then I was drawn to the first stanza from Gerard Manly Hopkin's The Windohover:

I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, 5
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!

Loire.

Slicemeister

The 18th in Ballykisteen, playing with a scratch golfer out of Courtown, absolute gent. 2 under with 4 to go, standing on the 18th level par and his head in a bit of a tizzy proceeded to put his drive into the hazard right.

234 out by my GPS, he pulls out a 5 wood and calls it," low cut chaser up between the 2 bunkers to the flag", which was hidden behind the right bunker. He had been calling his shots all day, more kind of thinking out loud than anything else. Caught it perfect, over the hazard 40 yards short of the green, bounced short of the bunkers and ran up to about 8 foot short of the pin.

Missed the birdie by an inch to finish level par for the round, my first one seeing in the flesh. I've played with a couple of scratch golfers but none could shape it both ways at pure will as this fellow could. A lad in his 50s who represented ireland in the Walker Cup and whose son is nearly off scratch in his teens. Just remembered, Neville Steedman.

Johnny_Fontane

Michael Campbells shot into the 18th at portmarnock to win the irish open a few years back. I had him backed and we had a lovely spot up in the grandstand looking right down the line of the shot. Think it was a six iron and he poured it into like 2 feet to win the tournament in a playoff.

I ripped a 7 iron back into the hole on the 17th in macreddin a couple of years ago....pity it was my second ball! It landed about 7 feet past the pin and in slow motion spun back and trickled in the front of the hole. Nice 3! :cool:

Sean_pop

16th in Moyvally playing partner hit a 3 wood over the water with crosswind out the left and landed just onto green and rolled up to inches from the pin.

Same guy plays with hurling grip!!!

dcrosskid

Best shot I ever hit was at the par 5 6th or 7th I think in Ballykisteen a few years ago. There's a dyke across the middle of the fairway which I just about cleared with the drive, hit my best ever 3 iron right at the hole all the way. Must have missed by inches as it ran about 5 foot past the hole, missed the fecking eagle though with a dribbly pulled putt.

I've seen plenty good shots from playing partners but the best would probably be a hole in 1 in Roscrea, hole 12 or 13 iirc. Strong wind in our face and he hit a 7 iron I think with a small draw, beautiful shot and just nestled into the hole after a split second wait. He was a leftie and I always loved the look of a leftie draw which was probably why this shot appealed more so than any other.