Yesterday I played in a scramble. Awful weather, feels like temp of 38. Cold, windy and rainy. My fingers were numb and I couldn’t use the rangefinder because I was shivering.
The 10th hole was a par 4 into the wind. The tee shot we had to play was off to the right in a fairway bunker which was far below the level of the fairway (Nicklaus designed course). The bunker had a huge lip that nobody could see over. We had 180 into the wind. After the other 3 barely got out. I go in with an 3 hybrid and they said, aim for the dead tree behind the green. I said, I can’t see any trees, lip is too high. I smoked the hybrid high and arrow straight, almost holed it on the fly. There is no way I should have cleared the lip.
They were amazed… I was too. One of the guys said, “who are you, Tiger?” The other guy said, “that what was better than Tigers shot “. We ended up making the putt for birdie too.