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Reader Stories: My Best Golf Shot Ever

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What is your best golf shot ever? Maybe it was a miraculous recovery shot. Or a long approach to tap-in range. Perhaps something less exciting but more consequential, such as a short putt to win a tournament. Or maybe it was a hole-in-on. Whatever your best golf shot ever was, all golfers have a story to tell about their own best shot. Share yours!
See also: What's the greatest golf shot you've ever seen?

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A 2-iron In His "Arsenal"

Already defeated, I took out my 1-wood and hit one of the worst tee shots I had ever seen. This only managed to crawl a few yards in front of me!I now took out a 2-iron and shot the ball on the green…More

Iron Work

I teed up and lined my 2-iron, ready to go. I hit it really pure - and it flew off my oversize clubface and I just watched and watched it as did my dad. I couldn't have placed it better because it en…More

Late Bloomer in Golf

At 82 years of age I was playing golf for only 6 years. The two other golfers hit their balls short of the green. I stepped up to the tee and they teased me that it's time for a hole-in-one Jim, and …More

Great Time for a Great Shot

Standing on the 2nd, the whole crowd from the bar on the first fairway watching, my opponents went long left and short right with their second whilst I summed up the roughly 125m (136 yard) shot. Wit…More

Pinehurst Magic

I hit a 3-wood which landed short of the green and followed the contour above the right bunker around to the right and up onto the green. The greens at No. 2 had been rebuilt back to their old margin…More

One-Upmanship

My 4-hybrid was well hit and settled, it appeared, closer to the pin. Upon getting to the green only one ball was near the pin. My ball had been lodged between the pin and the side of the cup and had…More

No Pressure

I am currently a 6 handicap and have been as low as a 3. I have made a number of second shots for eagles and have managed one hole-in-one but there is nothing as thrilling as making a double eagle. I…More

Slam Dunk

It was my second hole-in-one and it was the perfect shot. I fired up my 6-iron on the 120-yard 3-par 11th hole. The ball headed for the flag, dropping into the hole between the flag and the hole's ed…More

Double the Fun

On my second shot hole #4, around 80 yards from the cup on a green that slopes badly to the right, my 9-iron shot hit the green to the left of the cup and it rolled right, right into the cup. Then on…More

Prize-Winning Swing

Playing in the eighth-year tournament and using a 7-iron on the 154-yard hole par-3 15th, I made a hole-in-one and won a putter (not the car). Guess what hole the new car for a hole-in-one contest wa…More

Winning With Dad

My best shot happened in 2005. For years my Dad was a much better golfer than I and probably still would be if he hadn't gotten cancer. Cancer took away his powerful swing and great coordination. Any…More

Coming Up Aces

I was on the 16th hole, par-3, and told myslef that I would keep my head down and swing very smoothly. Since I only had a pitching wedge (and no other higher lofted wedges) I had to swing with a lot …More

Putting Tournament

The Putting ContestThe stroke play amateur mash-up scramble had yet to begin, so the perpetrators had us in a putting contest.The nine hole putt course was tricked up with dog legs, double backs, bar…More

Driving the Green

On the 11th hole, a 331m, Par 4, at Springs Golf Club, South Africa. Having had an average round up to that point I watched the other 3 guys in my 4-ball hit great drives down a tree-lined fairway. N…More

Nice Recovery

There was a huge crowd following them, some in carts, most walking, but all of them curious how I could've missed the 8th fairway by that much. Once everyone got passed me, they stopped, turned aroun…More

Clutch 7-Iron to Win Tournament

I hit the most pure, high fade 7 iron, just inside the treeline, right at it. The green is elevated though, so I couldn't see it finish. When we got up there, I was one inch from the hole - tap in bi…More

Shots that Make You Go 'Wow'

It was the 17th hole at Oso, very short but very tight and very windy course with postage-stamp greens. I was 180 yards out playing to a small, undulating green that was fronted by a finger of water …More

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