Recovery shots, ah yes...if it weren't for recovery shots I'd have no game at all. The most fun can be in the brilliant recovery or even the brilliant recovery that almost made it. Two personal examples:
The one that got away:
Double crossing my tee shot deep into the trees and knee deep rough. Seeing a slot directly to the flag requiring a low line drive with a 100 yard carry then run out of about 60 yds. But hitting from a down hill lie in the rough. Choosing between a choke down 5 or 6 iron, going for the 6 and almost pulling it off threading the needle between all the trees including those right in front of me that made trusting my swing imperative and the bloody ball catches the sole branch, the last one just before escaping the forest and falls stymied behind a tree in the deep grass. Fun, yes, it was so exciting to almost pull of this miracle shot, painful to miss, yes, walked away with a 9 in the end. Stupid, maybe, but we also saw Kevin Na make 15. I could of walked back to the tee to hit 3 I guess, I should of, but I was not and still am not that smart as deep down I always believe I can pull it off. Course management would say otherwise in this case. Great fun way to learn a lesson however the only shot of the day that people are still talking about.
My best bogey:
Yes I've had many, far to many great bogeys BUT my best bogey ever was on our par 5 11th hole. Pulled my drive, gone, not even worth going to search. Pulled the provisional to the left side of the fairway but long and the ball ended in a bush unplayable. I took a drop and hit my hybrid from 200 meters (about 220 yds) to an uphill blind pin position where the green is literally 10 paces wide, no idea how I managed to get the ball so close (it was blind) but it had to hit the upslope right above the deep pot bunker, in front of the pin and raised green just right to stop the ball on the green. Sunk a downhill breaking put from 15 ft for bogey. Amen! The holes is about 500 yds with an elevated tee that plays down into a bit of a valley then goes back up hill to a sliver of a green.
Anyone else?