What is your golfing highlight?

[Jeff_Brauer]

I mentioned this on another thread but perhaps a bit of happy talk around here is just what's needed....

What is your golfing highlight, the one you might have them etch on your tombstone?

I have two holes in one, but somehow don't rank them up there.  Still seems like luck.

I beat Steve Elkington out of $5 at an opening, which I think is pretty cool, and have played with a lot of pros and celebs over the years.  If Tim Pawlenty ever gets to be Prez, then playing with him might be my best moment, even if it takes a few years to become so.

Maybe the best overall moment occurred in the first Vegas Pro Am in 1983, I went for 18 in two (as part of a team, with another ball in play it made sense) and hit the front wall of the green, bouncing back in the water.  The highlight was hearing the crowds in the bleachers moan and groan in response to my near miss.

[Mac Plumart]

Mine is walking 18 holes for the first time, but my 5 iron that found the hole last week for eagle is up there pretty high as well!!  

[archie_struthers]

 



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[Andy Troeger]

Coaching my old high school to the girls' state finals in the program's fifth year of existence. My first two years we finished last in more than half our events, so winning the city championship, conference championship, and advancing to state and finishing 12th (out of about 400 schools in the state) was better than anything I'll ever do hitting the ball myself.

[jim_lewis]

1.  I played the Old Course in 1984 with my older son when he was only 12. Just the two of us and our caddy.

2.  Played Sand Hills with my younger son.

2.  Played 5 consecutive holes at Holston Hills in 14 strokes..... TOTAL.

[Anthony Gray]

  Caddying for the big boys.

  ARG

[Harvey Dickens]

Seeing Augusta for the first time was pretty sweet. However, it would probably have something to do with playing with my kids.

[Ron Csigo]

  Caddying for the big boys.

  ARG

Details please or give us a story about one specific loop that comes to mind.

[Anthony Gray]

  Caddying for the big boys.

  ARG

Details please...

  Pictures in the morning.

  A

[Jaeger Kovich]

Its funny how most of my playing highlights don't come from tournament play, but friendly games, with interesting people in interesting places... one example...

For my interview with Mr. Doak for his summer internship program, we played the 10 preview holes of Old Macdonald. Starting on #3 the opening tee shot was from sand behind 2 green over the sahara bunker. Probably the least accomplished player in the group, I stepped up and pumped it straight over the tree, almost all the way down the slope. The only picture I took the whole day was of the tree atop the dune with my cell phone. It stayed as my wallpaper until I inevitably destroyed it.

[Link Walsh]

Mine is walking 18 holes for the first time, but my 5 iron that found the hole last week for eagle is up there pretty high as well!!  

Congrats on the eagle.  I've never holed one out from the fairway.  Maybe some day...

[Link Walsh]

To borrow a term from CBS and the Final Four, my "One Shining Moment"  was a weekend in Nashville at the Legends Club years ago.  I shot under par for the first and only time on Saturday on the North course (71), and followed it up with a 77 on the South course Sunday with 3 birdies and a curling 30 footer for eagle on the last hole (my first eagle on a par 5).  I was just thinking about that weekend a few weeks ago. 

 

[David Egan]

I beat Tiger in one round in a college tournament a few weeks after he won his 2nd Amateur.  No need to ask about the other two rounds.

[William_G]

I talk about my first hole in one on my birthday most often, Master's sunday this year, called my family from the course and they were excited too, because they told me they couldn't beat that for a birthday gift LOL!

How about 66 from the green tees at Bandon Trails? I think it is still the course record from those tees.  Thanks

http://lowround.co/or/bandon/bandon-trails-course-golf-course-541-347-4380

[A.G._Crockett]

Winning the Father-Son tournament at my club with my 14 yr. old son on Father's Day 5 years ago.  It was way cool.

[Steve Kline]

There have been lots for me but here is a cool one. Growing up my dad and I played golf six days a week together (usually playing 36 on Saturday and Sunday). When I went to college I didn't think anything about not being able to play as much golf with my dad. My freshman year I came home sometime in late October and my dad and I went out to play right away. The first 5 holes we didn't say a word to each other. On the 5th green we looked at each other and we both had a recognition that all was right with the world again. It was a very special moment for me and my dad.

After college I started working for my family so I saw my dad every day and we played a lot of golf together again. About 18 months ago he and my mom retired and moved to Pinehurst. I really miss playing golf with during the week as I now play most of my golf alone (I'm pretty young and my friends can't drop what they're doing and leave work at a moments notice). But it makes the times I go to Pinehurst to play with my dad that much more special.

Almost all of my golf highlights involve my dad somehow. We've gone to Scotland 3 times (one trip just the two of us) and Ireland once. He caddied for me in the city championship when I shot a course record the first day, he caddied for me in the Mid-Am at Bandon Dunes, and others.

[Brian Phillips]

Playing Pine Valley and having a caddie for the first time in my life and getting Rocky.  As I have said before, it has been downhill ever since for all other caddies I have had.

[Scott Warren]

Actual playing-wise: I started with five consecutive 3s once at my home club near Sydney. Four birdies and a par. To this day I have no idea what happened with my swing or my head or anything else. It just all went right. I ended up shooting 70. I was playing off 10, then. Wasn't a bad way to break into single figures, in any case!

More abstract: Standing up on the 7th tee at Dornoch for the first time this May, looking over the course and across the firth thinking how far I had come - both in distance and in my life's journey - in 18 short months, to places I never dreamt I would reach.

[Melvyn Morrow]

Playing golf with my father and ten year old brother in Jos Nigeria the week before he died on that golf course.

All three of us had a great time many happy memories of that day and I remember my father’s game was improving as he won easily.

For me, achieving my fist Par 4 all those years ago. 

Melvyn 

[Tim Johnson]

Playing TOC with my dad and a member. After taking the members advice on how to play the 12th and actually doing what he suggested, reached the green and made the 25' foot eagle putt.

[Ron Farris]

Golfing wise it was a round where I had a hole-in-one, an eagle, and 4 consecutive birdies on the front nine to shoot 27 (par 35).  Followed up with a 35 on the back nine with a bogey.  I closed my match play opponent out at 11, set the ameature course record and remained sober enough to drive home.

On a professional level I would have to say that having Pete Dye repeatedly call me a "Dumb Ass" has been a highlight I relish, even if he calls everyone a dumb ass.  Actually playing 18 holes with Pete & Alice was quite memorable, especially because Wonder Boy Tom Doak was in the 5-some.

I still choke up a bit when I remember my father weeping in joy after the Denver Post Senior Tournament of Champions.  He felt his son had come a long way from a goat ranch course in the Sand Hills of Nebraska to being an assistant superintendent at a TPC course.  Man that was a long time ago.

[Steve Kline]

What makes this such a great game is that so many of us have great of memories of our fathers/sons tied to it. There really isn't any other sporting activity that can be enjoyed until one of the other can't physically do it. I'm taking my son out to play this weekend.

[Brian Laurent]

From barely being able to break 80 as a junior in high school to making my college team as a walk-on.

Family grudge matches between my dad, brother and I.

[Phil Benedict]

Making a double eagle at Bass River on Cape Cod.  It was nearly 40-years ago but I can still visualiize the hole and the shot, a four-iron.  It was a good shot but I wasn't sure where it finished.  Searched around the green for the ball before checking the hole.  Such joy!

[David Whitmer]

Mine, so far, has turned out to be beating a guy named Brett Wetterich in a head-to-head high school match when we were seniors, when we both played well. Brett has gone on to play and win on the PGA Tour and be a Ryder Cupper. We played a 9-hole match, and he shot a 33 and got beat by my 32. I still have the scorecard! Steve Kline no doubt played alot of golf against Brett also...I'm sure he remembers how good he was around the Cincinnati area growing up.