The one that brings you back.

I played that shot that brings you back today. It was the second shot of around 140 yards on a par 4, slightly down hill to a tightly guarded small green, wide bunker protecting the front, OOB stream horseshoeing tightly around the sides and back with a nasty mound down the right side.

I took a 9 iron, selected an intermediate target around two foot in front the ball, set up the swing. It felt like slow motion as the ball came off the clubface with absolutely no sensation, arced high in to the air, dead straight towards the pin, came down two feet in front, rolled on around four feet then zipped back two. What a great feeling! Tapped down for a birdy and the hole.

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Best Regards
Brian

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Funny o'l game!

Ah that's the one; for me its normally on the 17th after having a mare for 16 .

Presumably given the "and the hole" you were in a comp. I do hope you were deadpan and treated the shot as perfectly normal just to pysch out your opponent even more.

I like the "slow-mo - no sensation" description; that's just feeling I get - though probably not as often - did you win btw?

It was the first round of Winter singles, a fourball. Two, matchplay two balls, had an applause on that one but played the shrinking violet . Unfortunately I came second, the guy is very good though and I kept him to the last hole. Never mind, three more in my group to play.

Sweet, well done. While reading that, in my mind's eye, I could've swore I was there!

mine was a hole rather than a single shot
my game is suffering at present due mainly to lack of play/practise because of 2 week holiday and heavy workload.
yesterday i had played 4 holes of a 4BBB bogey comp and would quite gladly have come off course there and then.
i hit my irons fat and thin, i was driving the ball like a 7 year old girl!
then came the 5th,from nowhere i hit a sweet drive that just stopped short of the water ditch i had 150ish to go and hit a nice 6 iron draw which came up just short of the green as i underestimated the wind.im now still 35ft from the pin so i played a 9 iron chip that all but dropped in the hole and tapped in for par.
after that my chipping was spot on and had tap ins on another 4 holes

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cheers slats
"Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle"

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

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Every time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make two triple bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe....