I put a ball on the front collar of a green on a par 5 after I had driven the ball through the fairway of a dog leg left into a deep cut. We used my drive because it still was by far the best. I had a flyer lie from about 280 by the crow, but I needed to slice/fade the ball about 40 additional yards to clear a row of evergreens and send the ball straight from there. I was in a scramble that you could use 2 consecutive shots from 1 person only once per 9 holes.We took a shot because I was hitting everything long that day. I set up to cut across the ball and swung as hard as I could, but didn't move my head to look up and I picked it clean. Ball curved hard right after about 40 yards and just screamed down the center of the FW . and then started bounding on the very firm mid-September course, in Oswego, IL. The ball headed right at the flag and came to rest about 30' from the pin on the front collar. The most gratifying thing was the other 3 players said they weren't even going to try a shot.
I also won the longest drive in that scramble receiving my first ever trophy for golf. 314 yards with a 10* SMT DB 455 with a HTD CBS shaft that I bought from the swap shop on FGI and had received FedEx on Saturday 30 minutes before having to leave for the scramble.
Yes, I was lucky, but it happened and it was a large part due to the LM club. It was at least a 320 yard shot with 260+ yards of carry, again from the rough with a good lie.
It was a good day for me.