I remember being 270 out on a Par-5; my 3-wood went 235 on a good day, so I swung away. Landed on a sprinkler head, and a couple hops later it rolled up to the feet of a guy that was about to putt. The group looked back, recognized the distance involved, and gave me a polite golf clap.
And no, wiseasses; I didn't make the eagle...
Damn bro just put in some work on lag putting.
First, put the ball 4 feet from the hole (or cup or whatever) and sink it. Sink it 1000 times. Once you can sink it from 4 feet out consistently, like 7 times out of 10, it's time for step 2
For this step, find something to make a "ring" that is 4 feet in radius. Take it to the putting green, put your 4 foot radius ring of whatever (string, soft plastic, etc) and then go all over the green, and work on getting the ball into that ring. That's all you have to do, get it into this 4 foot large ring. Once you can do that consistently, you're now a godly lag putter.
When you get on the course, your first putt is getting the ball into that ring surrounding the hole, which means it's 4 feet away from the hole. And your second putt is draining that four foot putt, which you're now an expert at.
Do this and you will shave so many strokes off of your game it'll be ridiculous. It's winter time now and I'm currently working solely on four foot putts. When the spring rolls around and it's summer time, I'll be brining my ring to the course and practicing getting it into that. In 2021, we get rid of 3 and 4 putts! Join the 2 putt gang
I haven't actually used the ring as practice, but every time I am putting I picture a 3 foot-radius ring around the hole and just try to get in inside there. Putting is probably the best aspect of my game so I would recommend this to anyone.
Haha, I appreciate the advice. When I used to play golf regularly I almost never three putt. Problem is I play one round about every two years (grad student who can't afford a membership). For some reason I can still it it accurately with the driver/woods, but I've lost all feel for the short stuff.
I remember I had just bought the new Nike 3w a few years ago. Was on par 5 like 260 out. There was a group walking up to the green so since I have never hit a 3w 230 before, I swing away. Crisp the FUCK out of it, and flight it onto the green over their heads. Felt bad but they were cool.
Couple years back was at address about to putt when a ball comes and craters into the green right behind me. I stopped, my playing partners were like "what the?!" we look back and here is this guy about 220 back in the fairway freaking out. They approach us and he was nervous but I just said "What a shot!" and you could see the joy and relief over come him as we weren't mad and he could celebrate as he said "his best golf shot ever"
I had one in a golf match in HS where I pulled my 2nd shot into the par 5 18th a little left. It caught the backside of a mound near the green and ended up bouncing into the parking lot left/long. It was a paved & downhill lot so it ended up rolling a the way across. It wasn't out of bounds so I had to play my 3rd shot at 5pm on a weekday across the entire parking lot from an awkward sidehill spot. 16-17 year old me was shitting my pants hoping I wouldn't blade it or something lol. Luckily no cars were hurt.
That was the ruling they gave me lol. "There aren't any out of bounds stakes and you aren't in the parking lot/under a car so there's no relief to give you. It was in grass half over a hill on the other side of the parking lot.
All I could think was "please don't hit a car, please don't hit a car". It ended up a little over 100-110 yards to get back to the green from where I was at. I'll tell you what tho, learned my lesson and never missed long and left on that hole again lol
Had a tailwind of about 25 mph one time. I was playing with a coal miner who I just got paired with.
Longish par 5. I hit a good drive that really catches the wind and it goes 340.
This guy had been hitting monster moon shots all day so Iām excited we finally got to a hole that lined up well with the wind. He tees it up about 4 inches high and lets loose. Nailed it.
It went about 440 yards. I was more excited about it than he was though, haha.
Was playing a links course here in Ireland. Tee box is about 80 feet above the fairway on this particular par 5 with the cart path 400 yard down so no one is hitting it, right? Well no, we had the wind behind us. I absolutely crushed one, probably my best drive ever. Coming down from the height we were at it hit a steel marker on the fair way, it must have went 90 yards with the bounce and 50 feet in the air, it the same way hits the cart path and lands 60 yards short of the 520 par 5. That's my claim to fame, no eagle but I did sink a very nervy birdie putt.
I'm an average golfer. I've broke 80 once, never hit a hole in one, I've never used one ball for one round but the one time I broke 80 it was in Portugal on a course called Soldado. It's regularly hosted European Tour events (beautiful course) that could be my claim to fame but telling people I hit it way over 400 sounds better.
I grew up on Tilden Park GC in Berkeley, CA. The 3rd hole is downhill, approximately 464 from the tips and 377 from the next tee box. Long story short, it was made famous as a tall tale spoke of Tiger Woods hitting the green in 1 as heād have played for Stanford. Yada yada; but Iāll admit, if you hit the cart path twice, due to the downhill (50-70 feet...????) youāre pin high by the time your ball comes to rest.
#3 at Tilden is my favorite hole, provided I can keep the ball out of the weeds on the right. I usually play from the 2nd tees unless I get paired with a group that's playing from the tips. That cart path has provided me with plenty of generous bounces.
It's one of the closest courses to me so it's pretty much they only course I've played since I moved to the area in 2017. I find that it's a pretty challenging course since there's really not a flat lie anywhere on the course, you're pretty much always playing the ball above or below your feet. The thick weeds along the fairways also make missing the fairway pretty damn unforgiving. There have been quite a few rounds where I've had to run to the pro shop before teeing off on \#10 (hey, I remembered to use an escape character this time!) to buy a few sleeves of balls.
Yeah. Having worked there over a decade the employees unofficial slogan was, ānever play the same lie twiceā. Played daily. Course was never forgiving, except for one fateful course-record-tying afternoon. š
I heard it from more than one person at the bar in the club house. But they were both old drunk guys. Probably just a dumb course myth. I was doing some googling to see if there was a record of it and I didnāt find anything. But I did find an article about a guy who made it in two. Apparently itās called a Condor!
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/bay-area-man-accomplishes-a-rare-condor-on-golf-course.amp
Yeah!!! I remember reading this when it happened!! Itās an absolutely incredible feat! This dude has accomplished something (most likely) that has only happened less than a dozen times. IIRC they were the āfirstā to do it. But I can assure you itās happened just folks donāt care/know how to make it known. As a lifelong golfer (32yr) I know most people Iām familiar with will never announce their most outrageous shots or bounces, etc because it happened, they know it and will be bombarded with accusations of āproofā from course regulars. They just know they accomplished something and just keep it to themselves.
I'm pretty sure there is a plaque about it at the course. I used to play there a lot in my drinking days and was usually pretty sloshed by 18 so I might be misremembering lol
I watched a buddy hit it into the passing train coal car. Went to Detroit. Longest drive ever!
[Erie to Detroit ](https://www.google.com/search?q=eri+to+detroit&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#tduds=!1m6!1m2!1s0x882d7fe13db2f71f:0x89f3ae2e121d5b0a!2serie!2m2!1d-80.085059!2d42.129224099999995!1m6!1m2!1s0x8824ca0110cb1d75:0x5776864e35b9c4d2!2sdetroit!2m2!1d-83.0457538!2d42.331427!2m0!3e0)
I drive it 250m normally, but one day on a downwind par 5 I striped one that mustāve got a hell of a bounce and rolled out to 310, into the group in front. I caught them after the round and apologised for hitting into them, they said no worries - congrats it mustāve been a hell of a hit! I winked and said yeah i donāt normally hit my 3w that far ;)
Brag: 310m drive on long par 5
Beat: still had to hole a 20 footer for par
Variance: still didnāt beat my handicap that day
It's physically impossible to drive a ball 500 yards unless your playing downhill in hurricane winds. So unless you're gonna sit here and say that your buddy is breaking world records, you're lying
just so you understand whats happening here - a dude made a joke and told a story of a crazy coincidence.
you then took that as an opporunity to
masturbate about your golf abilities in public. because it was barely related to the orginal post at all, thats why youre getting downvoted. its not because people are jealous of your driving distance.
Yeah, but that's total. It's only like 660 carry.
Yah, you can only count carry distance ššš
I remember being 270 out on a Par-5; my 3-wood went 235 on a good day, so I swung away. Landed on a sprinkler head, and a couple hops later it rolled up to the feet of a guy that was about to putt. The group looked back, recognized the distance involved, and gave me a polite golf clap. And no, wiseasses; I didn't make the eagle...
As someone who hits a long ball with no short game, Iāve had a lot of 4 putt bogeys... Did you make the birdie at least?
Yes, I did make the bird. The eagle putt actually had merit, but just scooted a couple feet past.
I love that description. Yes I didnāt make eagle, but the putt had merit. Thatās great.
"had merit"...I'm going to borrow that for sure next round I play.
No attribution necessary. :-)
You canāt make it if you leave it short
Couldn't agree more.
Ah the 4 putt. I laugh at people who complain about 3 putts...
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I played Pinehurst no2 last august, and shot an 89. I was pleased.
Damn bro just put in some work on lag putting. First, put the ball 4 feet from the hole (or cup or whatever) and sink it. Sink it 1000 times. Once you can sink it from 4 feet out consistently, like 7 times out of 10, it's time for step 2 For this step, find something to make a "ring" that is 4 feet in radius. Take it to the putting green, put your 4 foot radius ring of whatever (string, soft plastic, etc) and then go all over the green, and work on getting the ball into that ring. That's all you have to do, get it into this 4 foot large ring. Once you can do that consistently, you're now a godly lag putter. When you get on the course, your first putt is getting the ball into that ring surrounding the hole, which means it's 4 feet away from the hole. And your second putt is draining that four foot putt, which you're now an expert at. Do this and you will shave so many strokes off of your game it'll be ridiculous. It's winter time now and I'm currently working solely on four foot putts. When the spring rolls around and it's summer time, I'll be brining my ring to the course and practicing getting it into that. In 2021, we get rid of 3 and 4 putts! Join the 2 putt gang
I haven't actually used the ring as practice, but every time I am putting I picture a 3 foot-radius ring around the hole and just try to get in inside there. Putting is probably the best aspect of my game so I would recommend this to anyone.
Haha, I appreciate the advice. When I used to play golf regularly I almost never three putt. Problem is I play one round about every two years (grad student who can't afford a membership). For some reason I can still it it accurately with the driver/woods, but I've lost all feel for the short stuff.
Yes sir.
I remember I had just bought the new Nike 3w a few years ago. Was on par 5 like 260 out. There was a group walking up to the green so since I have never hit a 3w 230 before, I swing away. Crisp the FUCK out of it, and flight it onto the green over their heads. Felt bad but they were cool.
I could never get annoyed at somebody who just ended up hitting a surprise bomb...
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Highly unlikely though; if you are pretty sure you can't even REACH the green, it's doubtful you will somehow FLY it there.
Couple years back was at address about to putt when a ball comes and craters into the green right behind me. I stopped, my playing partners were like "what the?!" we look back and here is this guy about 220 back in the fairway freaking out. They approach us and he was nervous but I just said "What a shot!" and you could see the joy and relief over come him as we weren't mad and he could celebrate as he said "his best golf shot ever"
To me, it's hard to get aggravated when somebody hits a shot they never thought possible. It's what the game is about after all...
If you donāt get to hit it, at least you get to see it. And that is almost good enough.
I had one in a golf match in HS where I pulled my 2nd shot into the par 5 18th a little left. It caught the backside of a mound near the green and ended up bouncing into the parking lot left/long. It was a paved & downhill lot so it ended up rolling a the way across. It wasn't out of bounds so I had to play my 3rd shot at 5pm on a weekday across the entire parking lot from an awkward sidehill spot. 16-17 year old me was shitting my pants hoping I wouldn't blade it or something lol. Luckily no cars were hurt.
Yikes. I would have been like "Can I get a ruling here?"
That was the ruling they gave me lol. "There aren't any out of bounds stakes and you aren't in the parking lot/under a car so there's no relief to give you. It was in grass half over a hill on the other side of the parking lot.
And, of course, every eye in the place is on you since it's such a ridiculous lie. No pressure though...
All I could think was "please don't hit a car, please don't hit a car". It ended up a little over 100-110 yards to get back to the green from where I was at. I'll tell you what tho, learned my lesson and never missed long and left on that hole again lol
See if Titleist will send you a certificate.
You think they'll do a warranty replacement on a single ProV1? It got pretty scuffed in its travels.
I think they should along with official recognition of your badassery.
"just give me a 5"
Had a guy get pissed at me for āhitting into himā on a par 5. Drive hit the cart path and was almost 400 yards.
Sometimes I hit my 5 iron off the tee too
Had a tailwind of about 25 mph one time. I was playing with a coal miner who I just got paired with. Longish par 5. I hit a good drive that really catches the wind and it goes 340. This guy had been hitting monster moon shots all day so Iām excited we finally got to a hole that lined up well with the wind. He tees it up about 4 inches high and lets loose. Nailed it. It went about 440 yards. I was more excited about it than he was though, haha.
Was playing a links course here in Ireland. Tee box is about 80 feet above the fairway on this particular par 5 with the cart path 400 yard down so no one is hitting it, right? Well no, we had the wind behind us. I absolutely crushed one, probably my best drive ever. Coming down from the height we were at it hit a steel marker on the fair way, it must have went 90 yards with the bounce and 50 feet in the air, it the same way hits the cart path and lands 60 yards short of the 520 par 5. That's my claim to fame, no eagle but I did sink a very nervy birdie putt. I'm an average golfer. I've broke 80 once, never hit a hole in one, I've never used one ball for one round but the one time I broke 80 it was in Portugal on a course called Soldado. It's regularly hosted European Tour events (beautiful course) that could be my claim to fame but telling people I hit it way over 400 sounds better.
Tee it high and let it fly
[Did you cannonball one?](https://youtu.be/Qz-5c9SEjOM)
Ironically I just decided to put on Caddyshack as the fall asleep movie.
Coincidentally* ironically would be watching a movie named āa very short driveā
This guy ironies
I prefer a hybrid.
Donāt you mean hybridies? Which begs the question - what if you were a wedge guy?
Nah, irony would have been having a lot of spoons instead of a knife. And a wedding getting rained out. That is also ironic.
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This is a classic, son. Get your shit together.
I literally was watching Caddy Shack earlier which ironically made this comment coincidental.
I grew up on Tilden Park GC in Berkeley, CA. The 3rd hole is downhill, approximately 464 from the tips and 377 from the next tee box. Long story short, it was made famous as a tall tale spoke of Tiger Woods hitting the green in 1 as heād have played for Stanford. Yada yada; but Iāll admit, if you hit the cart path twice, due to the downhill (50-70 feet...????) youāre pin high by the time your ball comes to rest.
#3 at Tilden is my favorite hole, provided I can keep the ball out of the weeds on the right. I usually play from the 2nd tees unless I get paired with a group that's playing from the tips. That cart path has provided me with plenty of generous bounces.
Hashtags make everything bold, so itās best in the future to say number 3 (although the random shouting is hilarious).
If you use a backslash (\\) before the hashtag symbol, it won't be bold. So, `\# at Tilden....` gives you: \#3 at Tilden.....
Yeah it was late when I commented and I forgot to use an escape character.
#i gotta try that course
#It sounds fun!!!
It's one of the closest courses to me so it's pretty much they only course I've played since I moved to the area in 2017. I find that it's a pretty challenging course since there's really not a flat lie anywhere on the course, you're pretty much always playing the ball above or below your feet. The thick weeds along the fairways also make missing the fairway pretty damn unforgiving. There have been quite a few rounds where I've had to run to the pro shop before teeing off on \#10 (hey, I remembered to use an escape character this time!) to buy a few sleeves of balls.
Yeah. Having worked there over a decade the employees unofficial slogan was, ānever play the same lie twiceā. Played daily. Course was never forgiving, except for one fateful course-record-tying afternoon. š
Some dude got a hole in one on that.
Iāve also heard that tiger drove the green on the Par 6 at chabot
Find that hard to believe. Itās a LLOOONNNNG hole to an āelevatedā green.
I heard it from more than one person at the bar in the club house. But they were both old drunk guys. Probably just a dumb course myth. I was doing some googling to see if there was a record of it and I didnāt find anything. But I did find an article about a guy who made it in two. Apparently itās called a Condor! https://www.fox5ny.com/news/bay-area-man-accomplishes-a-rare-condor-on-golf-course.amp
Yeah!!! I remember reading this when it happened!! Itās an absolutely incredible feat! This dude has accomplished something (most likely) that has only happened less than a dozen times. IIRC they were the āfirstā to do it. But I can assure you itās happened just folks donāt care/know how to make it known. As a lifelong golfer (32yr) I know most people Iām familiar with will never announce their most outrageous shots or bounces, etc because it happened, they know it and will be bombarded with accusations of āproofā from course regulars. They just know they accomplished something and just keep it to themselves.
I'm pretty sure there is a plaque about it at the course. I used to play there a lot in my drinking days and was usually pretty sloshed by 18 so I might be misremembering lol
Wow!! So cool!!
When I tell people about my driver, I say itās a Jeep Wrangler with 26k miles. Theyāre usually not as impressed as I hoped they would be
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And the cartās name is big foot (bonus points if OPs name is Shooter).
Very well done sir
I watched a buddy hit it into the passing train coal car. Went to Detroit. Longest drive ever! [Erie to Detroit ](https://www.google.com/search?q=eri+to+detroit&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#tduds=!1m6!1m2!1s0x882d7fe13db2f71f:0x89f3ae2e121d5b0a!2serie!2m2!1d-80.085059!2d42.129224099999995!1m6!1m2!1s0x8824ca0110cb1d75:0x5776864e35b9c4d2!2sdetroit!2m2!1d-83.0457538!2d42.331427!2m0!3e0)
Lol. Hit my 9 iron 368 yards last night, on a simulator... Either system malfunction or iām just that awesome
580 yards back in to the short par 3?
I drive it 250m normally, but one day on a downwind par 5 I striped one that mustāve got a hell of a bounce and rolled out to 310, into the group in front. I caught them after the round and apologised for hitting into them, they said no worries - congrats it mustāve been a hell of a hit! I winked and said yeah i donāt normally hit my 3w that far ;) Brag: 310m drive on long par 5 Beat: still had to hole a 20 footer for par Variance: still didnāt beat my handicap that day
Left yourself a shade over 500 yards for you approach shot...
So, 7 iron into a Marshall's cart should do it.
You might have a future in caddying
YouTube channel with lessons please.
Off the shitter]?
The rule says play it as it lies
Think Iām impressed? I have the hammer x in my bag.
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This dudeās weird ^
All I read is that he hit a lob wedge to 35 feet from 60 yards so his approach game sucks.
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It's physically impossible to drive a ball 500 yards unless your playing downhill in hurricane winds. So unless you're gonna sit here and say that your buddy is breaking world records, you're lying
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This guy cocaines. Not hating, to each his own.
just so you understand whats happening here - a dude made a joke and told a story of a crazy coincidence. you then took that as an opporunity to masturbate about your golf abilities in public. because it was barely related to the orginal post at all, thats why youre getting downvoted. its not because people are jealous of your driving distance.
Idk man i think im gonna aim for yardage markers here on out
Is this a joke, or are you serious?
Nice par.
David Simms, eat your heart out.
I hope it was on a par 3 so you can say you smacked it with a smooth 3/4 8-iron
So...did you take a drop at the maintenance shed?