Saturday afternoon in my 2 broken club 9 hole round I had a fluffy lie with the ball above my feet from about 15 yards out. I took the 64 degree Callaway wedge I picked up from Dan this year, open the face slightly to compensate for the lie and gave it a healthy half swing. The TP5 landed 12" past the hole and spun back 3 feet. That wedge is great around the green. Thank you, Dan.

    155 yd par three into a stiff breeze. The pin was cut back left, behind a rise. I hit a 5-hybrid that was tracking just left of the flag. The shot disappeared behind the rise but I knew it would be close. It ended up about 8" from the hole . . . a tap-in birdie. It also was the closest-to-rhe-pin on the front nine and that won me a $10 gift card. 😁

    My last round, I think the best shot of that or at least the one that comes to mind fastest.
    Hole 14, par 3, 167 yards, no wind, slight breeze. I hit last, everyone else was short or to the right.
    I hit my 7 iron, ball flew so very high I'm telling it to sit. Ball lands on the green, and stops 6" from the pitch mark. 15 footer for birdie, missed a little short, made the par putt.
    Not even the birdie putt I made on 11 comes to mind as quickly. Most of my drives were fantastic, and I remember a few of those, they still fall short of that 7 iron tee shot onto the green.

    After shooting a 44 on the front nine I came to the par 5 18th needing a par for a 39 to salvage the round. I hit a decent drive then totally messed up my second shot which left me about 200 yards from the green which is pretty much the farthest I can hit a 3-wood. So I proceeded to hit a laser beam 3-wood to the front edge of the green, threading the needle between two bunkers. I two-putted for par and a 39 on the back 9. 😎

    Ended up playing the front twice yesterday morning. League nights they switch the 9,s at times and if I get there before staff arrive and put up the sign I don't know until I make the turn. 9 is a par 5 ...... Good drive, smoked a 3 wood but it was leaning too far left and caught the left trees dropped straight, so got fortunate to have a clean punch shot from ~ 100y.....hooded a GW and hit a beautiful little runner in there to 4 feet and ended with a birdie!

    Third shot to the par-4 15th today - short right of the green after my second shot, about 35 yards from the hole (towards the back of the green), from a reasonably tight lie. While I had a clear direct line to the hole, the bank of the bunker on the right of the green was in my way, so I decided to try to fly the ball over the bank with my 60° wedge - hit it nicely, and the ball came out low with a bit of spin on it, landing about 20 feet short, grabbing a little and rolling into the hole for birdie.

      Yesterday I hit a 250 yard drive onto the green on a short par 4. The pond in front of the green was 235 to clear. Landed soft and rolled out 4 feet. 3 putt par.

        Mattyv

        Wow! That's a helluva drive, over water no less.
        It would take guts to go for the green in that situation. Too bad about the 3-putt though.

        I had a killer back nine today. 1 over on the back heading into 18. We won't talk about 18.

        Hole 12 at Skylinks in Long Beach. I blew my drive 30 yards right of the fairway but was lucky to get it in the parallel holes fairway. I have a 156 yards to the flag with a whole line of tall pine trees to clear. I hit a towering 8 iron draw just like I drew up in my head. Stuck it to 5 feet and proceeded to make the birdie putt. Top 5 recovery shots ever for me.

        Number 12 at Riverby Hills....a downhill par 4 layup hole with water in play. I had just bogeyed the previous hole,
        so I layed up short of the water, but had a downhill / sidehill lie to a green that sits on the edge of a hill. Landing
        short is not an option, b/c if you hit short into the steep bank you'll roll back down into the water. So I hit a 9 iron,
        and must have nuked it, b/c it flew about 5 yards over the green and into some rough. If I had the skill, I would've
        tried the Lee Trevino tip that I posted the other day, but I realized that shot is for the pros.....so I used my 58* wedge and happened to hit my landing spot just right, and it rolled on down the slope of the green to within 2 feet of the cup for a par.....sigh of relief....!!

        Three consecutive bad shots on a relatively easy par-5 left me about 120 yards out in the left rough under some overhanging branches. I made a compact swing to avoid the branches and, got a bit of a lucky bounce and ended up 3' from the hole . . . One putt later I had my par.

        A slightly accidental shot for me today - playing the 11th hole (320 yards, par 4), and decided to take a 3-wood off the tee to stay short of the fairway bunker in the middle of the fairway about 40 yards short of the green. (The course is playing firm and fast after a recent dry spell, and the wind was helping.) I hit a nice solid shot down the right-centre of the fairway with a little draw, but didn't follow the ball after it landed. As I walked up the fairway, I could see a ball just short of the green - at least 50 yards past where I would expect my ball to be, but it was my ball (300 yards away from the tee, going by my GPS). I went with putter for the second shot - the fringe grass is pretty short at the moment - and played for a little bit of left-to-right break from around 50 feet. The ball was rolling at a nice pace, but looked like it was going to miss just to the left until it took a little right turn as it reached the hole, catching the edge and dropping for an eagle 2.

        It ended up being a really good back nine - I also birdied the 15th and 18th, and made pars on the other six holes to be back in 30 shots (4 under).

          MartinD It ended up being a really good back nine - I also birdied the 15th and 18th, and made pars on the other six holes to be back in 30 shots (4 under).

          Great shot !!! Great nine !!!