[gabbaman]

I have gotten so many fortunate bounces just this year, I don't think I could ever single out one particularly lucky shot. I can think of 3 drives within the past few weeks that were sliced and by all accounts should have been lost, but somehow managed to bounce back into the middle of the fairway and in really good position.

Perhaps my "Luckiest" shot came in the middle of my alltime luckiest round ever in 2000. I was -3 after 3, starting out eagle/par/birdie (and back then my handicap was 18). The house next to the fourth tee was having a cookout, and with all those people standing around and yacking, I managed to hit a perfect drive, long and straight, leaving me an easy wedge to the 4th green. The green sits on top of a rock ledge, so if you are short your ball will bounce back towards you, and if you are long you are in the woods. I totally bladed my wedge, hitting a line drive that barely cleared the top of the rock ledge. Nothing could stop that ball from rocketing into the woods and getting lost....except for the pin, which it hit. I couldn't see the hole from where I was, and as hard as the ball hit the pin I figured there was no telling where the ball had bounced off to. Of course, since I'm typing in this thread, the ball somehow managed to just drop in the hole. -5 after 4 holes. Too bad the heavy skins were on the back 9.

[thomaskkk]

Having only come back to the game a year ago, I've gone golf mad this year. I think what's got me so enthused is having had more than enough moments of magic and hilarity to counteract the frequent despair!

A round for my birthday was organised in January, with three friends. One can play, the other two not so much. The better player has started winding me up in recent months, and despite usually finding his good-natured ribbing hilarious myself, it's caused me to duff plenty of shots. I'd bought an R11 3wood just after Christmas, as I'd only been playing irons all year, and hit it brilliantly during a round alone. I thought - this is gonna help me whoop his ass! Needless to say, come my birthday, 200yard slices were all I could manage! By the 12th hole, I told my friends I wasn't even scoring any more. I was playing so badly that scoring was spoiling my birthday. So I said there and then, I'm just gonna go for the most spectacular/crazy/hilarious shot of the day. Not that I had anything particular in mind.

Only two holes later, on 14, I was left with 70yards to the pin, on a green starting about ten feet below my elevation, which sloped away further and was split-level too. The flag was on the lower far side. With my relatively new sand wedge, I proceeded to pitch it perfectly and land the ball literally IN the hole! We all stood there dazed for a moment, then all cheered like crazy. It made my day!

Of course, having declared my intentions, naturally it was skill on my part!!! LOL. I'm sure the sound in my head, somewhat like the cup vacuuming the ball in, was really as it was!

And then just last week, I had the best run of luck ever. The 3wood was behaving. I out-drove the better player's driver on the 1st. Got my first ever eagle on the 2nd, having driven 240+ with 3wood into a blind front of green bunker, then picked the ball off the sand so cleanly with my lob wedge and rolled it into the hole. (Stopped to take a celebratory photo! LOL). Another perfect 3wood on the 3rd, resulting in a birdie, then two pars to follow, again from fantastic 3woods from the tee. The first of those pars was only an inch from being a birdie. So I was -3 for a few holes. Doubt that'll ever happen again!

I have an R11 driver being delivered tomorrow. Having just typed all this, I'm not really sure why?!!!

[Chooriwrocaxz]

The winner: Many years ago when I was a teenager I walked on as a single at the local muni and got paired with an old guy. We approached a green that had like 3' or 4' stakes around it maybe 30 or 40 feet in front of the greens. There was rope looped through eyelets across the top of the metal stakes. I hit my approach wedge really high but short - so short that the ball came down precisely on the rope. Amazingly the ball balanced on the rope, pulling the rope taut. There wasn't enough slack in the rope for it to go all the way to the ground so it collapsed maybe 2 feet then acted like a slingshot and propelled the ball back into air, just slightly forward. The 'thrown' ball flew forward, bounced a couple of times and rolled to about 18" from the hole. The old guy got so mad about my incredible luck that he started cursing me as he walked ahead in disgust.

A close 2nd: Playing to about a 36 last season but puring a 3h 235 yards for an ace on a hole called Devil.

[ImmitsRom]

Great stories everybody! What's even better is that I can visualize almost all of these shots because I have been there myself and probably every golfer has. Keep the great stories coming in

[ENCOSEARRALIA]

Two years ago I had a drive that I pushed and left me behind a line of trees on a dogleg left. I had 175 left but only space to the left of a tree. I took a 5-iron, weakened my grip and held my release off so much that I rotated my wrists clockwise. The ball flew out to the left of the tree and continued to cut. It ended up cutting 25-30 yards. It ended up landing 12' from the pin. It was an amazing shot that I had no business trying, much less accomplishing.

[spacecrafty]

I played with forum member MO_Hacker and he hit a ball short of the green and it landed in the water. But then it hit a fish and it bounced out and landed on the green.

[SeLvesTr]

I recently had the luckiest shot I've ever had. I hit a pulled 8i...WAY pulled...on a par 3 that hit the side of a tree and rocketed out back to the left, landing on the green and rolling to 10 feet for my birdie. Myself and my playing partner couldn't stop laughing. I missed the birdie, lol.

[desmond001]

I play this little 9 hole course not far from me, mostly for some quick practice. Anyway, most of the fairways are lined with very tall pines and the ninth has some of the tallest. I hit a bad slice onto the adjacent fairway,which is the first fairway. The only shot to hit the green was over the very tall pines and about 130 yards. The safe shot was to hit a shot back to the ninth and try to get down from 100, but I was brave this day and decided to go for it. I then proceeded to hit one of the purest and luckiest 9- irons ever, hit the green and 3 putted for bogey LOL! At least I took comfort in hitting a great and lucky shot. Since then the course was sold and the new owner takes horrible care of the course.Its too bad, it used to be a real fun place to play.

[hHwJ229h]

My drive landed just short of a creek and rolled across the only bridge to a sweet spot on the far side for the perfect approach to a long par 5 hole.

[cheaploans]

Was playing with my normal playing partner a year ago at our local course. We always play for a few beers after each round, so we're coming up to 18 and I know that I'm down. I stripe my drive down the center on a long par 4 and I'm sitting about 190 out. I'm doing my normal pre shot routine and I ask him how many I'm down, and he tells me that I'm down 2. So I jokingly say ok let me just hole out real quick. I step up with a 5 iron and strike it really well, it bounced on the front of the fringe and started rolling onto the green. Then it looks like the ball goes in the cup, but we're just shy of 200 out so I can't tell for certain. He hits shot left and short, so then we're driving up and I don't see my ball anywhere on the green so I know I dropped it for eagle. He misses his up and down and I won 2 beers with the best shot of my life. Will never forget that shot as long as I live.