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The best shot of the round

Didnt play great today but for this hole, I remembered how

Driver with slight cut into middle of the fairway

7 iron 160 to 9 feet

Made the birdie IMG_4130.jpeg
 
2nd shot on one of our par 5s. Absolutely made perfect contact with my 5w and left myself about a 40y pitch into the green. Great directional control, preferred ball height. All over well executed par.
 
Yanaked my drive into the trees and had to punch out with my 5 iron.

Was lucky to flush my 5wood with a little fade to 12 feet and two putt for bogey!!

Just love my LTDx 5 wood @Parrot sold me. Still working really well for me 🔥IMG_4147.jpeg
 
Substituted for a buddy in the senior league yesterday. I putted well again. But after 3 days of rain the greens were littered all over with worms and the greens had tuffs of grass everywhere they had been punched four weeks ago. So the longest putt I was able to sink was a 20 footer. So, we will go a different direction.

BSOTR was a drive on the par 4 17th hole. Despite the soggy fairways I hit a beautiful high draw 60 yards from the flag and middle of the fairway.
 
Tonight in league play, we started on the 18th hole--a monster par 4. The number 1 handicap hole on the course. 180-200 yards to the green is the best you can hope for because if you go farther, your ball will go down a ravine and into the water, and it's way too long to carry to the other side. The green is at the top of a steep ascent from the pond to the green, and is about a 125-foot climb. The green itself is severely sloped. You MUST land your second shot on the green, but even so, the ball is unlikely to be anywhere but off the green on the front, left, or right--and right puts you into a deep bunker.

My drive put me in position A1, 180 yards from the green. The second shot landed on the green right of the flag, but then rolled off the green front right, leaving a 35-yard pitch. The pitch has to be a high lofted pitch and precise, and it was, leaving a 12-foot putt that was a downhill slider to the left. I buried the putt to win the hole.

That got us off to a good start. We did eventually win the match.

That par required 4 good shots. But I'm going with the second 180-yard second shot as the BSOTR. It was the most exceptional shot that made par a possibility and is the most intimidating of all the shots.

This course has its own little goldmine with balls that collect in that pond.
 
Played a 9 hole skins game at the local muni. Best shot was a holed out 7-iron punch shot from 155 yards from right rough. Just a lucky shot for eagle. But the previous hole I doubled. Doh. The rest pars for a even par 9 holes.
 
#7. Par 3, very small green, 170 into a 1.5-2 club wind.

I still don’t have a knockdown, so I just ripped a 5i into the wind and hoped for the best. Gentle fade fell left to right into the flagstick leaving me 11’ short of the flag for birdie.

Missed the putt but I was very pleased with the tee shot.
 
16th hole, I put my approach in the bunker. The ball was in a footprint but it was not too deep. Splashed it out to about 3-4 feet and made the par putt. Making par out of the sand down the stretch kept my momentum going.
 
I’ll have to describe the entire hole… Playing one of the par 5 holes at a local course - I hit what was probably the best drive of my day. I pretty much never reach this green in two (and I didn’t today)… but, I was only a few yards off. The green is steeply sloped from back to front - so I needed to chip well - knowing the ball would roll down hill. Hit a good chip, leaving myself about a 3 footer for birdie. AND… I make the putt. Yay! Happy days are here again!
 
2nd tournament of the year. Downhill lie in a sand bunker. 20 feet to get over the lip and out, then another 60 feet of quick, downhill, left breaking green. I suspect the fact that my round was pretty much in the tank (82 final) allowed me to splash the ball down to within 3 feet. Making the par putt with 6 inches of break was the cherry on top.

Frankly, that is the kind of shot I often leave in the bunker or skull over. I was surprised I pulled it off. Naturally I acted like the shot was nothing special and was typical of my sand game. 😉
 
Best shot last round was a tough chip over a bunker to a short sided pin that almost went in and left a tap in par
 
Up 3 in my league play match with 4 holes to play. After 2 on the next hole, a par 4, I holed a 60 foot chip in front of everyone in the group for the win!
 
Didn’t hit a great drive on our lone short par 5 on the beer league course. Had 208 to cover the front bunkers and 214 to the pin, into a slight breeze. Absolutely annihilated a 5w that landed into the fringe behind the front bunkers and ended up pin high just off the green, 20’ right of the pin. Great shot, then took 3 to get down from there.

Player B made the eagle as he always does :rolleyes:
 
Chip shot on #18 to about 3-4 feet on the closing par 5. Easy birdie to end the round and the cherry on top of the 74 sundae.
 
Had a chip in for birdie yesterday
 
I had six 1-putts today, including two over 30 feet long, totaling around 100 feet of made putts on the round. We'll go with the longest putt made as BSOTR. A 35-foot putt that broke about 4 feet left.

Also, I almost had another chip-in today. A 70-foot chip from the rough hit my landing spot, rolled out, turned 6 feet left, and hit the flag square, only to sit there on the lip.
 
251 yard 5 wood on the hardest par 5 in Ohio. Left myself about 20ft for eagle and just left it short. It still bothers me but if you’ve seen the green, that’s still a great putt haha
 
Last Wednesday, I was 240-yards out on a par-5 to a firm, elevated green. I wanted to hit a high cut with the Cobra DS Adapt X 3-wood I've been reviewing, but the lie was very tight and I had a tree just left of me that I was worried about clearing. Instead, I choked up and played a 3/4 draw that landed 20 yards short and rolled up to about 15' of the pin. The missed eagle putt might have ranked up there with one of the worst shots of the round...
 
Today, just about every Drive. Hitting past the other Players. I'm not a big "I hit it past U" kinda Guy, but it was nice to see my distance coming back. Oh, and a Lay Up cuz I was tired of waiting for Forthsome to leave the Green and ended up 10 yrds short of Green with my 5 Hybrid...OOOOPs.
Just so you know, the King Tec 5 Hybrid had been giving me 185, that day as it turned out i was consistent 205. That why accidentally almost hitting into Group ahead.
 
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Despite the rain tonight which has been falling since early yesterday, we competed in league play. We knew there was a threat of an heavy incoming front ending play early, so it was important to get out to a fast start. BSOTR clinched it for us on the last par 5.

After a subpar tee shot I had a second shot out of the right rough, which was unusually thick, tall, and wet due to our recent rain. I was able to make good contact with my fairway metal, a bullet that soared down the middle of the fairway, leaving only 82 yards to the pin. That was the BSOTR as it set up a pitch to 3 feet and an easy birdie putt which closed out the match.
 
Last round was not a good one but had 89 to the flag and hit my 58 to an inch. Only birdie of the round.
 
I played in a shamble tournament today. Still waiting to see where we finished, but we played well. I'm torn between two candidates for BSOTR, so I'm just going to describe them both and why I am torn.

They started play on the back 9, which meant our first hole was a par 3. IMO the toughest of the hole categories to go low on out of the gate. Our best tee shot left us a 35-footer downhill and significantly sweeping to the right. I read it and matched speed and direction perfectly, so it trundled into the hole for a birdie with other players yet to putt. Seeing the line, one other player made birdie too. In this shamble, they take the top two lowest scores on each hole. This got us off to a great start.

The other candidate was on a difficult par 4. This hole is an 80-degree dogleg left with a bunch of tall trees guarding the inside of the knee and a severe downslop into a marsh at the bottom of the ravine starting about 100 yards from the flag then going up the other side to an elevated green you have to land the ball on with some spin because of the slope up to the green and the green being only about 15 yards deep.

I teed off last, and we had nothing out there that would get us on the green in 2. Still, I was feeling pretty confident that I could hit my hybrid over the trees and long enough to land in the fairway if I hit a high fade (I play lefthanded). Pressure? Yes. But I hit the shot I envisioned, leaving us an approach shot in the fairway and 110 yards from the pin. That enabled 3 out of the 4 of us to get our approach shot on the green.

That turned around a potentially disastrous hole.
 
Had two that stick out yesterday on the par 5 - 9th hole

Drive was 278 yards, a slight fade up the left side of the fairway, 5 wood stayed straight to the back of the green....just missed my eagle putt on the left edgeIMG_4852.jpeg
 
This was from Sunday's round, but it deserves some posterity!

It was just a full on "scrambly" kind of day. Driver was misbehaving and forcing my into recovery mode almost every hole, but I was determined. Played from the tips (rarely do that) and was shooting mostly bogey all day with a handful of doubles. I was trying to keep it under 90, but coming into the par 5, 18th, it was looking out of reach. Then this wonderful thing happened, I hit a great drive, a phenomenal 2nd shot through a small window in the tree canopy putting me on the green in two and 10' from the cup. Only thing left was to sink that 10' putt. Not easy by any stretch of the imagination as the break moves hard right to left AND downhill. ALOT. Double checked and triple checked the start line, stood over it, settled myself and let her go. Rolling, rolling, moving, turning, rolling, slowing down and BOOM! Falls into the cup for EAGLE! First one ever for me. It was pandemonium. High fives all around with hoots from the patio gallery to make it just that little bit better. Whew, turned an otherwise forgetful day into something to remember.

This is why we golf.....

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