Last friday I hit a perfect straight 5 iron shot on to the green of a treacherous par three, it barely missed the hole and get this, the head pro that is also my instructor was conveniently driving buy and saw my lucky shot! it was amazing!!!! I eventually birdied my first par 3 ( I tend to do nasty 2 puts or a par up and down)http://www.thehackersparadise.com/fo...ies/banana.gifIt was also a lucky shot since I tend to hit my longer irons crappy!

See, I don't consider a perfect shot, a lucky shot. For it to be lucky, something has to happen that you didn't plan. A good shot is a good shot. A lucky shot is a bad shot that ended up good.

flew a par3 into a giant cedar in back of the green. Ball came down on the top boughs, and bounced and rolled down the branches and dropped onto the green. I think I got the 2 putt par.

Ok how about this, I hit a bunker shot the other day and it hit directly into the top of the lip which made it bounce straight up and rolled a foot from the hole!http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/whew.gif now that's a lucky shot !!

THAT was a lucky shot! haha

It wasn't luck, it was a physical action that the moment the ball left my clubface had decided exactly where it would come to rest. But my best shot that all of you would define as lucky:

I was 13. The 9th hole was a 100 yard par 3, and I wanted to impress my friends by trying to hit one on top of the clubhouse behind the green. Dumb idea, but I did it anyway. So I hit the ball as hard as I could and it almost went over, but it caught the roof and rolled down, jumped off the gutter, and skipped over onto the green, 6 feet from the hole.

my luckiest shot was this:

My good college friend and i skipped our afternoon classes and went to Wilkes-Barre Municipal Golf Course in Bear Creek, PA. We get to the par 3 4th hole, and finish with a par (me) and a bogey (Matty). here's where it gets interesting...the setup between 4 and 5 is such that there are skinny, taller trees along the right of the 4th hole that leave shade for the back of the 5th hole's tee box. there is roughly 60 yards between the black tee box of 5 and the green on 4. so like i said this gets interesting...matty and i were in a friendly argument over god knows what at the time...and i took honors, proceeded to hit my tee shot then started wandering back towards the black tee box...looking past the back of the box you can see 4's green, and beyond that, the back of the driving range. i had a sh*tty ball in my pocket so i thought i'd make a deposit by tryin to hit it through the 4th, and onto the driving range (no one was playing the hole)...after matty hit, i proceeded to do as such...however...my ball grazed one of those skinny trees, ran up towards the green, through a sand trap, flipped up the lip and disappeared. matty and i just looked at each other and said..."gtfo...there's no way that just did that..." we ran back to the 4th green and sure enough, it was in the hole. honest to god, once in a lifetime, can't explain it, it just happens kinda shi*. lol i'll never forget it, and to this day, matty still swears the back of 5's tee box is surrounded by evergreens...

I was playing at Royal Troon a couple of years ago on a really windy day. At the par 4 11th, The Railway, which was playing back into the wind. I was in the middle of the fairway after my tee shot. I'm not sure what I had left but I reckoned if I hit a solid 3W I might just get there. Needless to say I didn't, I produced a huge slice that cleared the wall and was heading over the railway line until it hit one of the metal pylons that holds the power cables for the trains and came back towards the course, bounced on the wall and ended up in the middle of the fairway about 30 yards short of the green!! Unfortunately I didn't manage to get up and down for par.

What is your luckiest shot?
 

Hey everybody I figured this would be a great question and would get some interesting responses. For me I was playing in Myrtle Beach and decided I would crank one with my driver. I was 17 at the time, and thought I could hit the ball 450 yards, and I "slipped" on my down swing and the ball flew about 180 yards then skipped of a pond flew another 100 or so yards and then continued to roll down the cart path. The hole was a par 4 and was 394 yards. I could not find my ball anywhere until my friend spotted something on the fringe of the green and needless to say, that was the longest drive I have ever hit and I walked away with a birdie http://www.thehackersparadise.com/fo...ies/banana.gif.

Post some great lucky shots and if you don't believe in luck then post something anyway.

my luckiest shot was on #18 at my home course. dogleg right par 5. drove down the middle but my second in the right trees about 60 yards from the hole. pulled out the 60* wedge and put it in for an eagle, my first and only eagle as of right now. pretty lucky shot but i like to think it was skill http://www.thehackersparadise.com/fo...ies/act-up.png

I have 2 come to mind when I think about this.

1) 70 yards out on a Par 4. I bladed my 60* wedge and the ball went screaming toward the hole. It landed about 5 feet short of the hole and one-hopped-stopped for me about 3" to the left of the hole. That was an easy tap-in birdie. There was no skill in that shot. Just a complete miss that worked somehow.

2) In a fairway bunker about 145 yards out. I took out my 9 iron and picked it clean. The ball was headed straight for the hazard but it came down and took a huge bounce to the left and rolled right up next to the hole. I looked all around where my ball landed to see what it hit, but never found anything. So it should have been a shot in the hazard and I would have been lucky to save double bogey. Instead, I tapped in for birdie.

13th Hole on my home course is a 165 yd par 3 with about 100 yards of thick bushes immediately in front of the tee box, OOB all the way down the left and trees running for about 110 yds down the right. It's a pretty intimidating hole, especially in spring and summer when the bushes have grown up a bit, and it's not unknown for people to lose a couple of balls on there.

I duffed my tee shot 10 yds to the right so that it landed on the path that runs down to the green between the bushes and the trees. It slopes left to the bushes and is very uneven with stones and gravel on it. The ball ended up bouncing all the way down to the end of the path leaving me a 60 yd chip to the green. I made the chip to the green, 2-putted and ended up with a net par. Couldn't repeat that shot again if I tried it.

Mine was the 1st hole earlier this year. I was about 220 out and took my 3 wood on a par 5. Hit a horrible shot that started left of the green and sliced way right. Saw it go into a big tree and could hear it bouncing around only for it to shoot out of the tree and land on the green about 10 feet from the hole.

These are classic! Love these stories! Mine may not be considered a shot but here it goes. Hooked my drive deep into the other fairway rough on 9 where the greenskeeper was working on something. He has a dog with him at all times who is amazingly well trained and well-behaved...usually. When he saw the ball come down he ran and picked it up. The greenskeeper proceeded to run after him to get the ball but the dog kept running towards my next green. He caught the dog on the fringe and the dog immediately released the ball. The hole was a 365 yd par 4 and I made birdie easily (nearly eagle). We still play at that course a few times a year and I always bring treats for that dog.

My third ever golfing I sliced one on short par 4, ended up pin high about 40-50 yards right. My buddie handed me a 58* and told to choke down and take it easy, thinned the crap out of it and it hit the flag, dropped and rolled a few feet out. I ended up with my first birdie, didn't get another one for quite a while though.....and shot a 126 that day.

Any time I hit a fairway!

I have to go back several years for mine...I was playing with a couple of friends at a course I was unfamilar with and we came to a short par 4 tee box that was listed on the card as 305, but it was a severe dog log right and there were large thick trees lining both sides of the fairway.

I dedided I was going to hit 3W and try to fade it around the corner....I crushed it and hit it low and dead straight...we saw it disappear into the trees and heard it rattle around hitting several trees very solidly.

We get down there and I am looking all through the heavy woods and thick grass trying to find my ball when one of my buddies starts screaming and laughing his ass off......the golf gods had seen fit to ricochet my ball around the trees and somehow it came out and was sitting right in the middle of the green less than 5 feet from the cup!

Par 4 15th at my home course, 105 out up hill you can see the top of the flag but not the hole. Hit the PW pretty solid and when I got to the green we thought I must have gone long. After looking around for a few minutes we found the ball in the hole. That remains my only eagle on a par 4 and my favorite of all of the eagles I have ever had.

How silly, luck??? Every good shot I hit is a result of superior skillhttp://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/joy.gif

Actually, I have had too many good breaks to single out any single one.

My luckiest shot was an approach shot on my 9th. I was about 120 away, pulled out my gw, and totally skulled it. Went about 20 feet high and flew. Now, the lucky part: the green is surrounded by trees, and I hit the middle of the tree behind the green, bounced back, and ended up 6 feet from the hole. Even better, I made the birdie putt :)