Had one of those "come back shot's" in my round last Saturday as well...
Saturday was a Par round for us and by the time my group had made its way to the hardest rated hole on our course, the 407m par 4 dog leg right 15th, I was one down and (thanks to Dr Bob's book) still managing to hold my confidence levels in check, despite some sporadic displays of ordinariness...
Taking 1I from the tee, went through my psr and pulled the trigger. Ball sailed off, bullet straight at my selected target and unfortunately took a little leftwards hop on landing and finished about 160m out, having missed the fairway by less than a metre.
Whilst ball position didn't look too bad from the tee, when I arrived at my ball I found it lying under a large weeping gum tree and whilst I had no troubles addressing the ball, the fine, long, slender branches of the tree were waving on the prevailing breeze and I was very concious of getting the club caught up during either my backswing or downswing and stuffing the shot completely.
Having just hit one OOB on 14 for the 3rd round in a row, I asked my marker to try to keep an eye on my ball, "just in case..."
Selected 5I for this shot and stood over the ball and took a couple of slow practice swings, each time I felt contact with the tree...
When it was my turn to play, I confirmed my target, went through my psr and pulled the trigger... Even I was dumbfounded at the result. To my complete amazement, my swing missed the tree completely and I absolutely nailed the shot. No sensation of contact what so ever of ball on clubface and off the ball sailed towards its target. It pitched and checked nicely on the green and was seemingly close....!!!
On arrival at the green, the ball was all of 6 feet from the cup......
I would make the birdie putt!!!
I'll certainly be back next week......!!!
Cheers
