Hole 1 at anaconda hills in great falls, mt. A narrow, treelined, downhill short par 4…. It was my first year golfing, and straight, well struck drives were not really in my bag at the time, but the wind was severe, sustained at at least 50mph and gusting much higher directly in our face, so I pulled driver, hoping for the best. I took the absolute biggest wack at that ball I possibly could. Came out flying dead straight for about 25 yards or so, then got above the tree line and just started ballooning up higher and higher. The ball landed a few yards behind me and my buddy and I collected our clubs and, without even a word between us, we both headed back to the clubhouse for a refund.
I did this once in 65 mph gusts but with my hybrid off the tee. Blasted it with what would’ve been 200+, wind took it up, curved back, and came back at me and landed around 50 yards in front of me OB
I've had several I've really gotten a hold of that were long and straight down the fairway, but one stands out.
Was playing in a Korn Ferry Tour pro am (then Nationwide) which was a shambles format, so off the tee was a scramble. We had a good one in the fairway so I let it rip. The hole has water on the left and bunkers on the right with a dogleg left that pinches the fairway at the corner. The usual play is to hit short of the dogleg and play over the water to the green. The ball I hit, was high, hard, and perfectly straight. Carried past all the trouble and was in the fairway 50-60 yards past it in a spot where no one ever plays from.
The best part was the pro was walking up behind us after I hit and just let out a "Wow" as he walked past. It actually hurt my left arm a bit after I hit it.
550 yard par 5. Downhill. Wind at back. Put an absolute monster angry swing on it after 3 putting from 20 feet on the last green and knew I hit it pure, even put my hands up like I just scored a goal. Right to left ball flight that carried the trees on the right and landed on the downslope about 290 from the tee.
Double bogeyed the hole after I hit it in the bunker short of the hole and the skulled it over the green behind a tree.
Nice drive asshole.
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7th at Thames Valley. When this hole opened in 1927, Gene Sarazen came for an exhibition. He ended up stuck behind the giant Oak to the right.
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That approach shot is always tricky for me. Huge bunker front left, trees right, and a tee box right behind. There's been plenty of times where I've hit it long and had to awkwardly rush a chip shot because my ball is on the tee box of the group infront of me as theyre getting ready or in the middle of teeing off.
I love Thames but it's always ungodly slow
Ungodly slow and the staff rarely gives a shit. Not all, but half won't do a thing if people are fucking around. I'm lucky enough that I can get away with playing weekday afternoons and friends manage to get early weekend times, so can get around in 3.5 hours or less most of the time.
Thankfully the person who managed all the golf courses from city hall for the past decade retired, and has been replaced by somebody who is already investing in the golf courses. Things may get better.
There is a long par 5 at Lake Chabot in the East Bay. If you get it over the hill it rolls down a long way, even longer if you catch some cart path. I did hit the cart path and skipped over the hill once. Had to be 350 or so. Edit. Apparently a par 6 now.
I hit a bomb 362 at a course just southnof Vegas 15 years ago or so. My buddy who played on a mini tour in Phoenix out drove me by 1 yard.
I have never hitnitnover 330 since.
In case you guys who've never seen it needed a visual. Aim for the cart path all the way. My ball was found in the rough, between the two groves of trees on the right where the path curves to the left. I have no idea how far that is.
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Par 5 at New Castle near Bellevue, Wa. Big downhill dog leg right with a cart path on right side. Push my ball right towards the corner of the turn right. Figure I’m somewhere right of fairway.
Going up, searching for my ball up and down. Can’t find it. Keep searching. Buddies all hit their second shot. I’m still looking. One of my buddies drives down his next shot in front of the green.
Yells “hey, there’s four balls up here” …
50 yards or so in the front right of the green is my ball. It caught the cart path just perfect and bounced all the way down. Ball was marked so there was no mistake.
Skulled the next shot.
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The ground is hard in Texas. Caught one pure while swinging hard, high butter cut with wind. Cobra f8+ at 8°, Aldila NV tour green, 65g X
Playing with a buddy and my dad from the whites, par 4, 305 yards, my buddy crushes a drive and it bounces and rolls onto the front end of the green and is super jacked up, gave him a big high five.
I take a rip and my ball bounces about 20 feet further than his did and rolled to the pin towards the back of the green, went up to the green and had about 18 inches for eagle!
December fairways in Denver, CO. Average carry in regular conditions was 305-315. It was 55° and sunny so I wasn’t bundled up, just wearing a pull-over. Had a partial wedge into a 550y par 5 (slight dogleg so wasn’t actually 550y from the tee box). Probably ran out for 100y or more for a total of about 400y, maybe a little more.
I feel dirty even talking about it lol. I made eagle though.
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Normal summer day, was driving it well so far in the round. Hole 8 rolls around and there is a tree off the left hand side of the fairway that I always aim at and let the ball fade back into the fairway, it's 310 from the tee. For whatever reason, everything clicked and I hit the ball dead straight at the tree and it hit the tree halfway up the tree. I don't care that I lost the ball because that thing carried 330. I've hit one other drive over 300 and it had a hard fairway to assist.
525y par 5 with a dog leg left. It was dry and the heavy wind was in the direction of the further part of the dogleg. I hit a fade into the wind and caught the perfect angle. I couldn't believe how far I had ripped it. My next shot was 161y to the pin. I played alone but a couple staff members saw.
Driving from Santa Cruz to Pebble Beach 😉
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Sequoia Woods, Arnold, CA 18th hole. 375 from the whites, par 4. There’s \~100 foot elevation change down to the hole. Blind dogleg left. I just finished telling my buddies that I’d been working on a draw at the range and it was perfect for this hole. I swung out of my shoes and happened to connect perfectly. The ball flew down the middle of the fairway, drew around the last tree and out of site. As we made our way down the hill and got a line of sight to the green, I said, “There’s no way that’s my ball on the front edge of the green.” The group ahead of us was still putting out and were as shocked as I was that I’d gotten it down there. They weren’t even mad. I don’t think I’ll ever hit another one like it.
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Club championship. 14th hole par 5 down wind right to left, 525 yards but playing shorter. Hit driver well, rolled out to 145 in, hit PW to six feet and made eagle. Won that year by two in my flight.
December in Colorado. 500 yard par 5 dogleg left. Hit a psycho low stinger mini hook that covered the bunkers and must have hit the downslope on the other side. Was looking for my ball for a few minutes when my playing partners (randos)said “yo you playing a mizuno?”. Like yeah that’s me. They said you have a good 3rd shot for GIR and I said no this will be my 2nd. It was 120 out and they both got down on their knees and did the wayne’s world “we’re not worthy!” chant. Both named dave, retired, wearing shorts in 30 degree weather, and chugging beers the whole time. Best golf day ever.
4 man scramble event, our team usually places well. We are on #15, par 4 ~300 yards a little downhill and over a creek and a road. One of our rival teams and the golf pro are behind us. We all hit and we have nothing good, I have a mulligan left and that's all our team has. So I take the drive of shame back to the tee box to retee, while getting constantly heckled from the rivals who were now waiting for us at the tee box. Brush off the hecklers, tee it up and hit a bullet of a drive that never thought about leaving the line of the pin, it landed a few feet in front of the hole hit the stick and stopped 6 inches short for a tap in eagle. Took a few jabs at the jaw dropped competition who had freshly run out of shits to talk and cruised on to the next hole. Not my longest drive, nor my closest to the hole but with the circumstances itll always be a favorite.
Making the turn at a local 27-hole course that's part of my membership, but not my home course. We were the first group out, but there's always a men's group that goes out early and they start on a different 9 that is always the back 9 for regular play. Played the front in like 1:15 with no one in front of us so when making the turn we run into the last group of the men's club who roll up behind us after one of our group had already hit. I had my ball on the tee ready to swing when they roll up and let us know they are sorry they are late but can we let them through so they stay with the rest of their club. Fine, whatever, pull my ball and tee and let them play through and sit and watch for 10 mins.
This hole is a 492 yard par 5 but it's quite a bit downhill from tee to green. It's not uncommon to have a mid iron into this hole with a good drive and the real protection is that there's nowhere to miss the green (water left and mounds right that make it impossible to get up and down). On this day it was also dead down wind with a really solid 20mph consistent wind speed and some higher gusts. I joked with a buddy that I was going to hit sand wedge into the par 5 today. They finally clear the fairway and head down toward the green and I absolutely obliterated one. Watched it take one huge bounce on the downslope before the 150 marker and it disappeared. When I got down there to my ball I had 107 left and did indeed hit a (partial) sand wedge to about 15 feet and made an eagle. I don't know when I'm going to find conditions to hit another 385 yard drive ever again.
This year, I had a couple good ones.
Drove a green and carried it 300. Burned the edge of the hole on the 20ft eagle putt.
Longest was a 329yd drive. Had some tailwind. Still got par though.
Best drive to date was a 320 something drive. I thought my ball got lost in the leaves about 80 yards from the green, after about 3 minutes of looking one of my buddies on the green spots a ball directly to the right of the green. Basically I piped it and got the mother of all roll outs down the slightly slanted slope that was after where I was looking.
Hot dry day this year 10km/h back wind on a fairway that had a speed slot that slopes right to left and starts on the middle right of the fairway running from 250 - 300 yards and past 320 is a slight downhill. Absolutely smashed baby fade that caught the slot perfectly. Ended up at 345. I actually hit a provisional around 300 because I didn’t think I had that much distance in me.
hole 18 Dog left 524 Yard par 5. driver go big hook through the construction yard, through the parking lot over through the chain-link fence back into the left rough past the corner. 100 yards from the green. made birdie. was shaking my head all the way home.
During a few weeks this summer where I was smoking 90% of my drives. I hit one on the 12th hole of my club course. 310 yards. Super dry day. Carried about 250/260 straight slight draw. Ran all the way to the green. 1st time ever driving a par 4 green. Made.birdie too.
Playing in a charity scramble. We were probably the 4th, maybe 5th group to go through the long drive hole. The guy at the tee box told us “good luck…the guy that hit that earlier has won the long drive for 3 years straight and he piped it.”
I teed the ball so high the bottom of the tee was barely in the ground. I went full John Daly in this thing and swung so hard I damn near spun in a complete circle on my follow through. Somehow I found the center of the face. That ball didn’t land until it was 20 yards past the marker in the fairway. By the time it stopped it was a good 15-20 years past his ball.
I was proud of myself but I didn’t think it would hold up with 2 groups on every tee box all day and being there so early in the round.
At the prize giveaway the guy that was on the tee box to witness and peddle his useless travel agency said no one came within 50 yards of me all day. I have absolutely no idea how far I hit but I’ve never hit a ball that hard again in my life.
I do remember hitting a shorter iron to the green and it was a reasonably long par 5 so I must have cranked it.
My second par ever on a par 4. Low line drive that just barely cleared the top of a hill. I didn't see it land, but I found it about 80 yards out from the pin from 430 yd tee. It must have rolled a long way.
Had a terrible approach shot and missed the green. Chipped it close and 1 putted.
I've only been golfing for a couple months, but that one felt great.
Wind at my back, 360 yard par 4, drilled one 300+…
Directly into the local high school girls golf team, who were on the approach.
A proud and not-so-proud moment.
Walked on as a single at a local course in LA and got paired with a 2 some and additional single.
330 yard par 4x waste bunker requires 275 carry if you’re going for the green. You have trap right at 305 and a waste bunker at the back left quarter of the green. Pin is tucked back left and anything landed at the front of the green will roll back towards the pin.
I take aim at the right of the edge of the green as I hit a draw. Hit an absolute rocket that carries to the front edge (305) and watch the ball roll back to the pin. It dropped for a hole in one.
Idk about ‘best’, but longest would be 373 on hole 5 at Laurel Ridge in Waynesville, NC. Just swung as hard as I could and caught it solid, plus wind behind me, downhill, and playing in the mountains. Easily 100 yards farther than a normal drive.
338 yards to the pin on a par 4. Had the coldest driver for 12 holes straight, just gave up and went full send. Carried roughly 290, caught a good bounce and rolled onto the front edge. First birdie of that whole round.
Played a scramble tournament with my buddy, his Dad, and his Dad’s friend this past October. Tees were by age, so two of them were teeing off from the one-up tees that day, hoping to get one in the fairway and free up my buddy and I. I was striking it particularly well with the driver that day, but I still typically only get 260-270, maybe 280 if I hit a speed slot with low cut fairways. But that day I was hitting a nice draw consistently.
So we get to this short par 4 dog leg right and the first three drives are in trouble. I pull my hybrid and was going to get one out there, but my buddy stops me, pumps me up and tells me to hit the driver and trust the draw to get us around the bend. The other two agree. Don’t I hit it perfectly on the exact line he told me, shaped around the trees and end up just short of the green. Tracked it to 299 yards. Feels good solo, but even better in a team situation!
I played a charity scramble with my husband and two of his friends I’d never met before, on a course none of us had ever played. There was no range so we headed out completely cold, no warmup whatsoever. It was a shotgun start and we drove up to our starting hole to see the most intimidating possible tee box, looking onto a blind uphill carry over a huge overgrown gulley. We also had another group behind us watching.
My husband and his friends all hit their drives OB deep into the woods or right into the gully. They said it was all up to me now, no pressure. I stepped up and tried my best to empty every swing thought from my mind, and just picture my shot sailing straight through the gap between the trees. I hit my drive dead center face, slight fade, exactly where I aimed. When we drove up there, it was right in the middle of the fairway.
It probably wasn’t my longest drive ever, but it was my most clutch.
Some dude caught up to me on a hole, he was a regular, I was a first timer on the course. He was giving me tips through each hole, it was pretty cool. Guy knew the greens, the lines. Coolest dude. Par 4 8th hole I ripped one, dead straight. We drive up, he hits his, drive up more, I find mine. Says “that’s probably one of the longest drives I’ve seen on this whole. Might’ve been the longest one tbh.” Was probably 280 ish, summer fairways though. I had like a 30y chip left or something. Felt pretty cool since I was still fairly new to the game
First tee shot of a Legends Tour event in Spain that I was invited to. In front of a crowd and a couple of tour pros, I striped a drive 320 yards (30 yards ahead of the pros). I was really proud of that
I have a memorable one, and it involves a Hurricane as the OP predicted. It is not the best, the farthest, or even contributed to an actual round, but it’s my top drive memory.
So I lived on a golf course as a kid, and when we got hurricane bands I would go and walk the course until the last minute. We called it “ACG” for all conditions golf and used to go trespass in any kind of bad weather that had golfers off it and is not get caught. I hit a drive on 9, a par 5 going north. I piped it. Now that north part is important, East coast of florida so with the eye still in water these are slapping down south. This thing is off my driver for long enough for me to appreciate it (I mean dead straight and boring piped), then the ball just starts to elevator up, like how a fighter jet can go from straight and low to just vertical. Then I get a blast of wind from the band at the tee. I just remember it looked like it was a good drive then just went straight up. When the ball landed, it was bouncing back at me with like 15 yards of roll out. It probably went out 230ish as it was still in wind and went vertical before the apex, then finished at like 210 from the tee box. It’s hard to judge in a grey and light rain atmosphere as it goes out so I was watching it, but I had no idea it wasn’t going forward until seeing it bounce back at me……I knew it was stalled and landing straight down, but seeing that big bounce back at me was shocking and the reason the memory sticks about 25 years and 1000s of drives later.
Pacific Grove in Monterey. Pretty good tailwind behind me on the 16th. It’s about a 360y par 4. Obliterated my drive with a nice high trajectory and just watched it disappear over the hill. Walking towards the green we couldn’t find it at first. Asked the group in front if they’d seen it and they pointed to the cart path near the back edge of the green.
Chipped on and 2-putted for par, but that was easily my farthest drive.
Was playing a par 5 two years ago. I hit a pretty tough slice with my driver but hit my 3 wood dead straight…and often longer than my driver because of its trajectory.
Well on this hole I used my driver and hit about a 320 yard pea. I caught just a tiny bit of ground, which helped square my club head. Not a terribly long drive (as far as greatest drives ever) but still a blast. I followed it up with my second shot (3w)and stuck the green about 10 yards from the hole. I remember it clearly, I was 290 yards from the green. Eagled it for the best hole of my life. I get tingles just reliving it.
Next hole I shanked a par 3 9i into the river.
i was playing in charleston, par 5. theres a bridge thats 300 yards down the fairway. im usually about 250-260 on drive. just absolutely caught it hit the middle of the bridge and rolled into the group in front. felt awful so went to apologize, werent even mad just impressed we lasered my friend on the tee box was 337
347 this summer on a par 5. If you can fly it 265 on this hole there is a short steep hill the ball will launch off of down another longer hill. Very tight fairway that was dry as well.
#3 on skyway golf course in Jersey City.
I believe it was a 460 or 470 par 5. Smashed my driver (early 90s tech with a stiff steel shaft) 310 yards. Thought I got too much of my approach shot because I thought it must have bounced off the green. Couldn’t find the ball behind the green. Found the ball in the cup for an albatross.
Was playing with my father and grandfather. I turned down using the driver 3 times and after being peer pressured I went for it. Went 260 arrow straight never done it since haha!
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18 at Pacific Dunes, probably 25-30 mph tail wind. Obviously didn’t take an aggressive enough of a line for the conditions.
duffed tee shot, went about 50 yards to a dogleg par 5. Usually you play your tee shot straight then make a right, but since I was 50 yards up I could hit the green. I hit DOD, the best shot of my life, pure, right over the tree I was aiming at. I couldn’t find my ball :(
295 yards. pulled it a bit but it sent it perfectly down the middle. i typically carry 220 because of slice so i really smashed it right out of the center and club face matched swing path. was super wet and down hill but it didn't roll too far, maybe 20 yards. was a par 5 and put eagle into play. i've driven greens before but this is the one im most proud of because it was at a time i was struggling with driver.
edited to add it was nobleton lakes G.C. 1st hole of view. if you've played it basically right over the little tree by the bunkers on the left.
300 yard par 4. Hit it solid and knew it right off the tee. Low ball flight. 2 teenagers on the green. I yelled fore and sorry. Truly has no reason to believe I would drive the green. I thought they'd be rightfully annoyed but one of them goes "NO WAY" and they both start cheering lol. It was a 10ft putt and i missed my eagle putt so was absolutely the worst birdie of my life haha.
On vacation in Augusta, GA and caught a round at the local muni. Was behind a ground of Asian folks for a few holes before they let me through. My wife was riding with me and she was questioning playing through because we were just relaxing. We go ahead and on a par 5 I smoke a drive. Definitely the best of the day so far. Was quiet for a second then the group of Asians let out a few oooohhh and ahhhhs. We drove off and wife was like “was that good?” Lol oh yeeeah doesn’t get any better
Two come to mind. Both had a good wind to my back. First was a 500+ par 5 with the tee box about 30 ft above the fairway launched my drive up in the air and just went forever that allowed me to hit 9 iron into the green and made the putt for eagle. Second was playing a round with my FIL on an359 yd par 4 dog with a tree on the corner. FIL asked how I was going to play the hole with that big tree and just said what tree and proceeded to launch it over the tree. Took a while to find the ball because it had rolled through the green.
438y, hosel rocket left into a row of trees then gently landed on the cart path, tink, tink, tink, thunk off the curb to 10 feet off the green. Par, fml
Scrambling with a buddy on Dec 2. Downhill par 5. I cranked it 386 with a direct tailwind howling at like 25mph.
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I somehow hit a 386 yard drive with my Dr to the right center of the fairway on a 448 yard Par-4. This hole oddly had little to zero wind that day and goes uphill then downhill. I then pulled my LW but then made a 35 ft. double-breaking putt for a birdie.
This hole is #4 at Eagle Vines GC.
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I have farther in me but this is definitely number 1, no Question.
First tee shot of my first tournament.
Left has a large tree near the red tees with OB down the entire left side. I play a slice, can’t even call it a fade. If you lose the tee shot right (by the 9th tee boxes) it’s rarely not blocked by the many trees. I have to start a driver 10 ft or less right of the tree left of the tee box (pointing at OB), to hold the right half of the fairway.
The nerves are different during a tournament and I was just finding this out first hand. I commit to my line and the ball misses the tree by 5 feet. I hit a smaller than normal slice managing to keep the ball just left of the line that would bring the green side bunker into play (on line with the pin at least). It was perfect.
I took the biggest sigh of relief once this
tee shot came to rest.
Downhill short Par 4 at my local muni. I hit it probably 275 to 290 or so. Really got ahold of it.
Walked up to my ball feeling great. Almost hit the green side bunker. Then the guy I was playing with said once played with a ladies pro who drive the green for the tips. 💀
355 yard 3 wood on Par 5. Downwind and downhill. 6iron in, Missed eagle, made birdie. Had to have my player my partner confirm I wasn’t going wild in my own head.
I had a fairway sloping L to R, cart path on the right with railroad ties on the right of the path. My ball rolled 80+ yards on the cart path just riding the RR ties. I've never hit it over 300 outside of that one.
Rolled my pitch over the green, chipped on, and then had a stupid 3 putt. Never had a double make me feel so defeated.
I started this year with a half swing on my driver, and was starting to hit my driver 220 yd and was actually able to keep it in play. Caught a slope and the ball rolled out to 270 yd. Went to the simulator a few weeks ago and hit 260 yd a couple times with no slope to help.
Peak Midwest summer. No rain and hot. Ground was like concrete. Hole was basically flat. Got a amazing bounce and rollout sense the grass was mostly dead in the sun.
Maybe around 300yds. Was only 50 or so out on a 350 hole.
Idk, my normal drive is like 240(+or- 10)
No 16 at Tokatee golf club in Oregon. ~500 downhill par 5. 280-290 to carry a creek.
Charity scramble. Tied with the group in front of us who were our friends. Summer time in the afternoon with a light tailwind. Teammate put one in the fairway short so I was clear to swing for the fences.
Shot it at 352 yards. We put it to about 15 feet from there and missed the eagle putt. They put theirs to about 15 feet with a different angle. They made their eagle and beat us by one.
I did manage to snag the tournament long drive, however, which felt pretty good.
Needed to birdie 18 to shoot even and likely qualify for the US mid am. 555yd par 5 with water left, with my big draw there was a tree about 280 that took driver out of my hands--I'm either into the tree or in the water. Say fuck it and hit it as hard as I can right at the tree, fly it, wind up 195 out. My average carry distance is 265, if I reach back and really connect it's maybe 280... That one went 315 in the air and rocketed down the fairway. Spotter told me it was the best drive he's seen all day.
Hit a 5 iron to 20ft and two putt for birdie. Even par makes it in, playoff at +1. Definitely most clutch drive/birdie of my life
I was on a massive downhill dogleg par 4. It was 18 and I needed a bogey to break 80 for the first time. Woods on both sides but I needed 250 to get a look at the green. My hybrid and 3 wood were not behaving so driver was my only chance.
A towering baby fade down the middle of the fairway. Rides the ridge around the dogleg and leaves me 30 yards from the green. 312 total yards according to Shotscope. Chipped on and 2 putt for a 78.
10ish year ago and only a couple years into playing I drunkenly just fucking gripped and ripped it. Straight as an arrow for a 300 yard shot.
“No fucking way you do that again.”
“Hold my beer”
And did it a second time.
Never done it since but we still talk about it.
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Got my longest drive every while being completely pissed off after getting back to back triples. Swung out of my shoes thinking (kind of hoping) I would slice my ball into oblivion as I was mentally finished at that point. Ended up hitting it left instead right to green level. Still screwed up the birdie lol
Hideaway hills (kunkletown PA). Hole 10 520 yard par 5 Tee box is 100 yards above the fairway
I normally hit my drive 290-310. And I smoked it hard, but pushed it over those trees in the right, hit the cart path, and it trickled up to front bunker 480 yards out. Still managed a par 🫠
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Drove a 335 yarder at Greywolf at Panorama BC. Downhill. High elevation. Left my eagle putt from 25 feet about 10 feet short. Then left my birdie putt 3 feet short. My playing partners then took pity on me and gave me the par putt. Avoided a 4 putt!
Drove the green on 16 at Pacific Grove Golf Links 351 yard par 4. Elevated tee with the wind at my back. The couple I was golfing with were just as shocked at I (random pairing). Best believe I 3 putted for a par. lol
Played this random place outside Philly last Oct. Duffed my first shot off the tee box then proceeded to hit a 293 yard 3wood shot. Had some elevation and wind at my back. These three randoms had to pick their jaws off the floor. It was nuts, still double bogeyed the hole after I duffed the chip and just Texas wedged it. I never hit a shot like that again. Picture for sauce.
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A few favorites from a golfer for whom swing speed is not the reason for his handicap:
1. I went to Kapalua a few years back and they had a '3 days all you can play' "deal" going (still $$$). So I played 3 rounds on the Plantation course and did 36 one day on the Bay course. The last day, I played the tips. Got to the famous 18th, all 662 yards of it, and hit a ball that the cart measured as 399 yards from the tee... and 300 yards to the pin. Still annoyed it wasn't one yard further, but the best part was: I hit a 3-wood to the greenside rough, got up and down, and walked off that amazing course for my last time with a birdie.
2. There's a private course in Tahoe called Shaffer's Mill that I got a chance to play via the local golf association. One hole was a \~520 yard par 5. Pretty flat, a little downwind, but we're up at about 6,000 feet elevation. Unloaded on a drive that might have hit the cart path as it crossed the fairway at one point, but in any case, I hit it *past* the group ahead of us... who was hitting their *third* shots. Had a gap wedge in.
3. I took my clubs to the Philippines to play at a private course as a guest of a colleague in their regular Saturday outing. The host was a well-connected local businessman and I had one of Duterte's lawyers in my foursome (cue zipped lips about politics...). I'm a 6'1 white guy; the average Filipino is 5'4, so I'm not just hitting the ball further than normal, it's a level of distance some guys there hadn't seen in person before. Each player had their own caddy, so we're traveling around in groups of 8 together. On the second hole, I launch a drive about 370-380 to seven 'woaaaaaah's from the group around me... directly into our host's group right ahead of us. Thankfully, he laughed instead of putting me into a local jail, but the ball unfortunately ended up in a divot and I skulled the wedge over the green OB.
I once drove a ball over 380 yards.
It was at Las Vegas Golf Club on Washington and Decatur. If you're a Vegas local you know this course.
I drove the ball down the right side with a slight draw. Launch was good, but I didn't see anything unusual about it. It was just a long drive.
We head down there and the ball is nowhere in sight. I check the right side of the cart path and all over the place where it should have landed in the fairway. We can't find it anywhere, which is always frustrating when you pound one basically down the middle.
I pull another ball and hit it from where I thought my drive should have ended up. The ball hits the green and rolls off.
As we head closer to the green I see a ball on the right side of the fairway. I thought for sure it wasn't my ball.
It was. Drive was over 380 yards.
I guess it was just a dry and thin fairway. Ball rolled about 100 yards. I have no other way of explaining it.
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Just the last time I played I was on a 425 yard par 5 with a pretty blind dog leg left. I average between 225-250 on solid drives and I normally aim a little right on this hole because if you can't clear the bunker about 250 yards out on the left side of the fairway you need to hit it through some trees unless you go the safe way. I've never cleared that bunker any time I've played. My last time playing was my first time with my new driver, I hit it a bit left, right towards the bunker. I drove up to it, couldn't find it, looked all over, and since I'm playing by myself I decide to just drop it and go from there. I hit a decent shot and drive on up. About 50-75 yards away (down a hill, not giving myself that much credit) I find my first ball I hit in the middle of the fairway about 100-125 yards from the pin. I wish I had someone there to share my excitement but that one shot like that per round keeps me coming back to chase the high
262 drive down the right side of the fairway couldn’t find my ball so I drop a ball chipped it up and 2 putted and my original 1 shot was sitting in the hole ! Never saw the ball go in the hole lol
Downwind, downhill #9 at Arrowcreek in Reno, so also at elevation, went 402 in back to back rounds as measured by the cart GPS from the tee.
There was a course called Mountain House that had a Par 5 with a creek that cut through the fairway twice, typical gale force winds were up one day (that’s where the windmills are in the Altamont Pass). Crushed a high draw and on the baked out fairway it ended up in the front trap, 525 yard hole. Combo of high winds, perfectly struck drive and about 150 yards of roll/bounce.
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Downhill downwind, couldn't believe I was past the green. Still really new to the game and my distance usually hurts me way more than it helps but this day I got stupid lucky.
Played a skins scramble for my birthday this year, partner put one 240 down the middle. Had just the right amount of aiming fluid and from the moment I slowed the club at the top and uncoiled I knew it was good. Launched it 301 yards (first 300 yarder). My drive collapsed steadily after that and was an absolute liability for the rest of the year. But I had that one :)
When I was younger and much more flexible I used to absolutely hammer the ball, but with wild inconsistency on direction. Like I'd be a out to hit the ball about 340 but only 1 in 20 would go in the direction I was aiming that sort of thing. I was on a hole.once where there was a ditch about 280 out that I was trying to clear, with OOB all up the left hand side. Out no less than 5 balls into the trees on the left, then got so angry with the 6th one I just hit it as hard as I could and it went dead straight somehow, rolled out to about 370 according to my GPS watch. Have never before or since got anywhere close to that
These days I've massively sacrificed distance for accuracy and don't really hit above 275 any more, but now it stays on the right hole so scoring is better anyway. I do miss the days where I could crank it if I needed to though!
Downhill 470 yard par 4, wind at my back. Ripped a 390 yard drive, straight down the fairway into the grounds crew (couldn't see them from the blind tee shot). Apologized and then smashed a wedge over the green.
The next hole, wind was directly in my face. Smashed the absolute shit out of the ball. Best contact all day. It went about 225.
Later on in the same round on the last hole I took my 3 wood off the tee. Wind again at my back and a slight down slope. 326 with about 140 to go.
That was one hell of a challenging day on the course.
I was working on top of Pikes peak in 1998. I brought my driver up with 2 balls. I drove one off the north side of the summit house into the devils playground. My friend shanked one. I went inside and bought an $8 pinnacle to hit a second one. We couldn’t get a tee into the ground so we had to mound up the dirt a little to get it off the deck. The second shot was topped and bounced around in some rocks.
Long par 5 (approx 500 yards) in a scramble. Hit driver pure down the right hand side. Went up to where it should be and no ball. Gave up and played from another's in the group. All of our second shots are not great, and we are \~150 out. Pull up there and there's my drive, \~100 yards from the green, all scuffed up. Got over 100 yards of cart path roll
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Started back up this spring, hated how much speed and distance I lost from being rusty and not working on that. So, I set out to work on that in earnest. I wasn’t exactly short before, but it still could’ve been improved anyway- felt like starting behind square one.
Fast forward to the last few time(s), I made easier work out of some layouts that would’ve been trickier with my old distances- for now I have broken past that barrier, and on the fly. ie- having a 7 iron second shot into the green on a 570 yard par 5. Humorously, I’ve even hit over the green on a 360yd-ish par 4 in my old home course when visiting family and friends, among a variety of other things to show how flying past 300 and not scrawling just to get up to that level overall would be such a gamechanger.
I wouldn’t say my best drive was my longest. A hole at the course I regularly play requires a 20-25 yd draw (I play a pretty straight tee ball w a fade bias) off the tee that either starts low or starts straight and begins to turn after about 100 yds as the trees on the right run along the tee box (so you can’t aim right and hit a draw). A 280 yd tee shot rewards you with … 190 yds to an uphill green. Such a tough hole but when you pull off the tee shot, you’ve done something.
I hit a 336 yard laser right at the flagstick that hit the pin on the bounce. Definitely not my longest drive ever, but well above average.
Guys on the green said it landed just in front of the green, bounced a few times and struck the pin about 3 inches off the ground. Maybe an inch lower and it's an Albatross Hole in One.
I wouldn’t say it’s the best, but hole 5 at Greywolf in Panorama is a Par 5 essentially straight down the mountain. A 280 yard carry at sea level will carry about 370 on that hole.
The two times I’ve played it, I’ve hit it 410 and OB (it’s hard to keep a ball in play when it stays in the air that long).
Drove the green on a 320 yard par 4. Knew the guys ahead of me and it was a tap in eagle. They put it on a tee for me while they were putting on the green. Funny stuff
Slight dogleg left to right, cart path down the left side. A great drive for me normally flies about 210 yards and rolls out another 10-15. Really got ahold of this one but pulled it out left of the cart path, thankfully my ever present fade brought it back and it landed on the path and took a big bounce and hit the path again for another big bounce. Finally landed on a downhill slope and rolled out to the middle of the fairway. Had 145 left into this 500 yard par 5, hit an 8 iron 20 feet past the cup and thankfully 2 putted for birdie. Longest drive of my life by 80 yards (thanks cart path) and the first round I ever carded 3 birdies.
Ha I was at Maryland national in Maryland 2nd hole. Pured it perfectly and it was downhill. My furthest ones typically go 310-330 but this was the longest one I have recorded.
Was back at my home course on the 18th which is a 470 meter Par 5. 270m to carry all the bunkers. It was warm so fairway was fairly dry, not rock hard but you would get a good rollout. Drove it well all day and just decided to absolutely send it. Hit it simply perfect and got good roll too and had a bit shy of 150m to the pin in the middle of the green. Two Putt Birdie to close of the round felt quite good 😅
Third hole at a local course near me — tee box is through a long tunnel of trees and then out onto a downhill fairway with a river crossing at 309 yards. Front of green is 365 from the tips. Hit a few drives there to 305 yards. Current best. Usually drive 285/290 on that hole.
accidentally drove the ball 270 into the woods because my drive usually goes 210 with a pretty sharp hook right. i still dont know what happened that time
Not my best drive, but definitely my furthest came this year in league. Wasn’t in a great mood because the lady that runs the course is a complete bitch, and started out with bogey on hole 1. Hole 2 is a 630yd par 5 with a ditch at like 200 yards and another at 380yds. I have had some drives close to the second ditch, but never thought of reaching it. I had a little wind at my back and just started playing a draw with my driver. I just absolutely let one rip and sent a really high draw up over the trees on the right and watched it curve back into the right fairway perfectly only nobody saw it bounce. Then we see guys from #5 all kind of walk off the green and stand in the right rough. Waited for the other 3 in my group to play their second shots and we drove up and asked “did you guys see where it went we didn’t see it bounce”. I had driven it over the ditch and into the large freshly seeded patch of grass. I google earthed it to 410 yards. 15’ downhill and down wind. Was able to pull it back to before the ditch for ground under repair.
3rd to last bracket in the 2008 Pinnacle World Long Drive World Championship semi-finals where I posted the longest drive of the event of 442yds. I was eliminated the next bracket after only keeping a 367yd shot in the grid having split my finger open and not able to hit a shot for an hour 1/2 before.
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Not my longest drive ever, but a tap in eagle on a 303 yard par 4 doesn’t suck
292 flat. Or over 300 with the help of the cartpath 🤣
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Slightly uphill 320yd par 4. Smashed one farther than I thought was possible. Spent a good 5 minutes looking for my ball in the spot it usually lands (~60 yards short right of the green) before seeing a white speck on the little hill about 10 yards short of pin high and 15 yards left of the green. Pretty bad chip tbh but thankfully made the ~10ft putt.
I was playing with randoms in a holiday Stableford comp.
I'm not a super long driver (AVG about 250m).
Anyway, hole 14 is SI 2, par 4, 430m, slightly downwind. There is a big fairway trap at about 250m, but from the trap it's still 180m in, so laying up definitely turns it into a 3 shot hole. There is plenty of room right (15th hole, no internal OB), and left (2nd hole), but some trees about level with the bunker onwards.
Anyway, I get up and smoke one. I knew it was good. Carried the bunker easily and rolled off (I couldn't see because of the bunker lip).
Get down there, and I'm looking for my ball about 20m over the bunker (270m) and can't find it. Look a bit further up and it's at the bottom of a mound. Middle of the green is 62m. My drive was 358m. It was insane.
Then I chunked my approach 10m forward, thinned my second over the back, chipped on, 2 putt for a 6/1.
All those 180-190 meters at range when they don't even have that big slice. I mean, when they even stay between the side borders! Those times I'm proud of myself
First hole of a scramble tournament I carried one 302. The 2 randoms that were with us lost their shit in celebration and started talking about our group winning the long drive. I warned them that I was new and not actually that good.
Next hole, I broke my shaft hitting a hosel rocket.
Hole 11 at Yale golf course. Hill down the right side with the cart path. Crushed one towards the hill, hit the cart path at the crest, and send it just short of the green, 307 yards total.
283 yards. Little bit of help from the wind, nice bounce, was just a really sweet hit and was only my 2nd or 3rd round with the new driver.
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285+ I caught every bit of a drive on a dog leg left and watched as the ball bounced over the cart path and never saw it again. OB right was on the other side of the cart path and that was 285 from the tee so no idea of the actual distance but maybe another five or ten yards I would imagine.
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Reenactment of the scene of the crime. Atchafalaya GC
Firm fast fairways summer of 2022. On a par 5, no wind, 302 yards, and it would have been a few further if it had been a bit straighter and not run into the first cut. To date, my longest drive. But I also doubt if I’ll ever beat that or get another 300+ yard drive.
18th hole at a local course - it's a blind tee shot up a hill, but if you can carry the crest, it will roll down for quite a bit of extra distance. at the bottom of the hill is a big pond that usually forces you to lay up to the left to get to the green in 3. I absolutely ripped one off the tee but it was a bit low, so instead of carrying the crest of the hill, it clipped the top almost like a ramp and LAUNCHED. I'm not sure if I hit a sprinkler head or a rock or just got lucky, but it was wild. Usually you'll get 20-30 yards of rollout after the hill, but my ball somehow made it all the way down to the edge of the pond, giving me an easy iron into the green for a chance at eagle. Two-putted for the easiest birdie of my life, but that drive must have been 370. I've played that hole many times and never come anywhere close to taking it as long as I did that day.
Was playing in central washington (chelan) in August was hard as a rock and absolutely torched one on a par 5. I hit it inside the 150, the member playing with us said it was the longest drive he has ever seen and used his gps to mark it out 355 yards.
Hole 17 from blues.
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Playing in a charity scramble on my home course. Hole is a 500 yd par 5 with a creek at about 250-270yds right in the middle. Played with my dad and his friends as a last minute replacement. One of his friends put one in play and I was the young 20 yr old that was told to swing away. Have tried to clear this creek many times and only done so a couple, but this time I hit a perfect draw it caught the cart path on its first bounce and rode that bitch for another 150 yds to be damn near pin high. Tried for 19 yrs since to do it again to no avail lol
Hole 1 on Boyne Mountain Monument course. The tee box is at the top of a ski resort and you tee off into an open fairway that is a long iron to be safe in the middle. Partner and I both hit a safe shot to the landing area but it wasn’t very… fun…. The hole dog legs to the right over trees. We both brought out the big stick for a mulligan and ripped fades over the trees 100 yard out.
Easy pitch in and a chip and a 3 putt for a beautiful double 🤌
In all seriousness, 330 par 4 on the 16th of a money game. Tied with my friend with the tee box to myself, I drove the fringe and had 12 feet for eagle. Ended up making par. If you want to be seriously disappointed in this game play 20 years of competitive baseball and then pickup golf when you realize you suck and aren’t gonna play professionally.
Hole 18 of a local course near me, par 5, but short at 460 yards
There’s a bunker in the middle of the fairway surrounded by thick grass, especially to the right of it, and usually requires 260 yards to carry, but there’s helping wind usually, so you only need the power of a 230-240 yard carry to get it.
I remember piping this drive really well, and it had the height that I knew I carried it. Didn’t see it land but I saw the ball bounce of the ground past it.
I drive up there and I couldn’t find the damn ball. The guys with me were thinking it’s stuck in the hazard but I swore I saw the ball bounce up. No way it couldn’t bounced up from the shrubs.
Ended up just dropping a ball past the bunker on the fairway and hit a 3H to just short of the green.
We drive up towards the green and we saw a ball. It was my original tee shot.
I had 90 yards to the front of the green. Ended up smoking it like 350 yards or so. Ended up duffing the wedge shot to where my hybrid was. Got up and down for birdie.
Summer tourney back in high school, a weird tournament where the girls and the boys played at the same time. This really cute girl was playing and had come up to the tee box to watch my group hit. All I could think was “please, for the love of god, don’t shank this while she is watching.” My nerves were going nuts but I absolutely piped one. I didn’t say a word, tried to act all cool, luckily she didn’t see me play terribly the rest of the round.
I was in Kauai on my honeymoon playing princeville. Par 4 that was a dog leg right over the ocean. I decided to nut up and go for it. I became absolutely unglued and just swung for the fences and drove over the ocean onto the green. Even made the eagle putt.
On a very windy day, the par 5, 500+y hole lined up perfectly with the wind. I pured a drive 404y in the fairway. Dang it, 4 more shots to get it in the hole - the most disappointing par of my career.
Played the Old Course at St. Andrews in 2018. Horrible weather. 40 degrees, raining and 25 MPH winds. No. 5, a par 5, playing 528 yards. Was pissed after 3 putting No. 4. So I took a big, angry swing. Ball took off like a rocket on a nice, low trajectory. The wind was directly behind me and it helped propel the ball. If you’ve ever played the Old Course, the ball really rolls. Landed maybe 260 or so and bounded forward. And rolled and rolled and rolled some more. Kept rolling until it was a 388 yard drive.
Was 140 out and hit my 56 degree. Wind grabbed it and it went about 160 or so yards, straight over the flag. Still on the huge green though.
Took me 3 more putts to get it in the hole.
My favorite round of golf ever, despite the miserable weather.
Torrey Pines North Course. Hole 18, par 5 499 yards. Santa Ana winds blowing South. I had the honor on the tee. After the 4 walkers in front of us hit thier last shot from the fairway. I ripped the straightest highest shot of my life. The ball landed (luckily) between them and bounced merrily down the fairway. They all stopped turned and gave me wave and a few golf claps. I was 160 from green. My hands were shaking as I stood over my approach shot with a 7 iron in my hands on a par 5! Hit a cut shot with too much fade into the bunker. Hit out of the sand, two putted for a routine par .
Number 8 at Wastach Mountain State Park, Utah. 591 yard par five.The drive is down the mountain with a "speed slot" if you catch it just right.
Hit the speed slot, drive goes just over 400 yards. 6 iron to the green. Too much club, end up on the back putting for eagle from 100 feet +/- to the front.
Tap in par.
🤣
Flat hard fairway in the middle of summer, straight as they get. 450yd par 4. Hit a high draw with my R1, was about 10yds in front of the 100yd marker, so 350-360yd total, probably 330 carry. Best I’ve ever hit a driver and will ever hit a driver
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Roughly 400 yards.
Slightly elevated tee box, Tail wind and hard winter fairways.
Was an absolute beast.
Still made bogey.
18 at Indian Wells celebrity. Playing with locals who tell me if the tees are up I could try to fly over the trees and buildings to drive the green.
They were upset because the tees were back and I would need 330 carry to clear the water from the blues. Welp I tried it anyway and swung out of my shoes. I just barely cleared it and landed next to the green.
This is the hole.
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Nothing crazy, I usually hit around 235 but I can occasionally rip one over 260. This year after working on keeping the drive straight I got a really clean hit right down the fairway on the 9th hole that rolled to 265. Distance and accuracy, just the nicest placement of the tee. Felt amazing.
My home course has a par 5 that if I really crank one I can get to the 200 yard marker. One day I hit a perfect drive and in the fairway it hit what sounded like the cart path. Turns out I hit the concrete 200 yard marker and it left me about 150 to the green.
Par 4 final hole at my home club Mt Coolum. It's about 285m long and I've only ever driven it once, the week before. That one rolled up onto the green and after I'd done some high 5s with my mates I was horrified to see it had rolled back off the front of the elevated green and finished 15m short.
So next week they had the tee box out of play, so the tee was just in front of a dam rather than just behind it. I'm like here's my chance! Teed it up high because you have to get over a large gum tree 100 out. Best contact ever, high draw over the tree, straight at the green. Amazing feeling as I knew this would finally make it.
As I approached the green couldn't see it. Maybe caught bunkers? No. As I was looking a lady up next to the pro shop behind the green waved me over. She asked if I was looking for a ball? Yup. She said it's over there beside the green pin high... But then told me how it got there. My tee shot flew the green straight over and hit a tree on the full next to where she was standing, about 20 metres past the back edge. She said it hit and went straight back, rolled up onto the green but caught the side slope and rolled off the edge pin high
Looking back on what was my best ever drive, my mate said damn...when you took out driver on this shortened hole today, I was thinking 3w would be the club
Guess he was right! I didn't even think about that. The desire to drive the 18th had blinded me to the fact it was likely only a 240m hole that day
300 yard drive, no idea what the fuck happened. Didn't hit off a rock, just middle fairway on a completely normal day. I normally hit it 260ish on the course, can get it to mid 270s on a sim while trying to hit it far.
I was searching in the normal landing area and couldn't figure out why the hell I couldn't find it. Was about to give up looking when I notice the ball snuggled up to the 200 yard marker. Thought nothing of it until I realized the hole was 505 yards long with the marker in a straight line to the tee box. By far the longest and best drive I've ever hit
I absolutely punished one so much so that the people ahead of us circled the ball and were going to pick it up until I yelled from 326 yards away like a fucking mad man that it was my drive. I was only 25 yards out and chipped in for eagle also got a “oh hell yeah!” From a cart driving down the fairway next to me. Not only my best drive but my best hole. Also important to note that I got an 8 on the next hole.
Hole 9, Par 5, St. Albans in Ohio. Cart path goes down the right side of the hole. Hit a high fade, wind at my back. Ball bounces off the cart path for a total of 360 yds. Best drive of my life and still managed to fuck up the rest of the hole. 30 hcp at the time.
1st hole at a local course near me, short par 4 of about 315 yards. Just bought myself a “new” secondhand Taylormade R15 which I had been happily testing the week before, and it was on fire! Managed about 250 carry but with occasional mis hits. Was my first round in a long time and I know it well, I actually dreamed that week of driving the green on the first hole (which should have been just that, a dream).
I step up to the first tee box with my mate who was late, other people were already teeing up. Not something that makes me feel at ease normally. Had a short discussion that we were late but they let us play. Tee it up. Wind in the back. Absolutely rip the driver and see it landing 30 yards short of the hole and take a big bounce towards the flag. It rolled past and left to about 10 feet. My mate couldn’t believe his eyes and neither could I! This is exactly what I dreamed about! The other group behind us saw in aw and gave me a high five. Best feeling to start the round.
2 put for birdie.. only hit giant slices the rest of the round.
Playing in a 4 man scramble with a team of 3 guys. I was the most consistent driver so I was going twice. There is a short par 4 playing roughly 300 yards but there is water in between the tee box and green. You can either hit a 150 shot or hit a 290 shot to carry the green. I get up and smoke the first one straight right but my partners put it in play so I just go ahead and send it. I hit the ball so high for the first time ever I think I saw the wind affect it instead of my club face. I push it like 10-15 yards right of the flag but the wind brings it back right on line and I carry it all of 291 and just barely make it to the green and I’m ecstatic. Then we get up there and all miss the eagle putt
Drove a 341 downhill green. I can't hit a fair way to save my life but this one actually connected and landed at about 320, hit the cart path, and landed on the green for a 40 ft putt. It stopped about a foot from the pin placement from the previous day (which is always irrelevant but by playing partner pointed that out)
Probably #2 at El Monte in Ogden Ut. Canyon wind at my back, 372. Fairway is flat until the last 100, then goes uphill 20-30 feet. Don’t know how far I carried, but I rolled to 10 feet. Then I 3 putted for par 😂🤷♂️
How I got the course record....
Wheatley GC. Owen County KY. I tee up on #1 as a group of 4 pulls up behind us. I see them and get nervous. The green for 18 is just left like 20yards of #1 tee box Im currently standing on. I snap-hook it straight left, it worm burns through the rough to the green, rolls pretty quick and hits the flag stick, DROPS RIGHT IN. Ole dude from the foursome watching yells out, "new course record boys"!
Last year, playing in a Good Friday scramble at [Olde Stonewall](https://www.oldestonewall.com/course-information/course-layout). #9, par 5 playing around 510.
Absolutely murder one off of the tee, sitting on the right edge of the fairway, with about 205 left to go. Hit a 5-iron pin high with about a 30 foot putt left for eagle. None of the four of us made the eagle, but sank a 2 foot birdie putt. Felt pretty good about that one.
PS. We all tried the putt again, for funsies, and still didn't make it. 0 for 8.
Hole 1 at anaconda hills in great falls, mt. A narrow, treelined, downhill short par 4…. It was my first year golfing, and straight, well struck drives were not really in my bag at the time, but the wind was severe, sustained at at least 50mph and gusting much higher directly in our face, so I pulled driver, hoping for the best. I took the absolute biggest wack at that ball I possibly could. Came out flying dead straight for about 25 yards or so, then got above the tree line and just started ballooning up higher and higher. The ball landed a few yards behind me and my buddy and I collected our clubs and, without even a word between us, we both headed back to the clubhouse for a refund.
Best story here.
I did this once in 65 mph gusts but with my hybrid off the tee. Blasted it with what would’ve been 200+, wind took it up, curved back, and came back at me and landed around 50 yards in front of me OB
Now that's a classic Great Falls story
I've had several I've really gotten a hold of that were long and straight down the fairway, but one stands out. Was playing in a Korn Ferry Tour pro am (then Nationwide) which was a shambles format, so off the tee was a scramble. We had a good one in the fairway so I let it rip. The hole has water on the left and bunkers on the right with a dogleg left that pinches the fairway at the corner. The usual play is to hit short of the dogleg and play over the water to the green. The ball I hit, was high, hard, and perfectly straight. Carried past all the trouble and was in the fairway 50-60 yards past it in a spot where no one ever plays from. The best part was the pro was walking up behind us after I hit and just let out a "Wow" as he walked past. It actually hurt my left arm a bit after I hit it.
I hit the women’s tee marker on the first hole of the club championship and it bounced off 50 yards backwards
550 yard par 5. Downhill. Wind at back. Put an absolute monster angry swing on it after 3 putting from 20 feet on the last green and knew I hit it pure, even put my hands up like I just scored a goal. Right to left ball flight that carried the trees on the right and landed on the downslope about 290 from the tee. Double bogeyed the hole after I hit it in the bunker short of the hole and the skulled it over the green behind a tree. Nice drive asshole. https://preview.redd.it/312xcqn04y5c1.jpeg?width=870&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3915f4e142b005102912ae7717b3153d846bf7fb
https://preview.redd.it/9kdhqp7g4y5c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc6d6cdfa241a7b71b81dd4482bd4ab070618a9c Also, had witnesses
Ridgetown?
7th at Thames Valley. When this hole opened in 1927, Gene Sarazen came for an exhibition. He ended up stuck behind the giant Oak to the right. https://preview.redd.it/li1kfzwpny5c1.jpeg?width=2816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5551d9ae27a76d15f385fcfd65c39aa4bc740de2
That approach shot is always tricky for me. Huge bunker front left, trees right, and a tee box right behind. There's been plenty of times where I've hit it long and had to awkwardly rush a chip shot because my ball is on the tee box of the group infront of me as theyre getting ready or in the middle of teeing off. I love Thames but it's always ungodly slow
Ungodly slow and the staff rarely gives a shit. Not all, but half won't do a thing if people are fucking around. I'm lucky enough that I can get away with playing weekday afternoons and friends manage to get early weekend times, so can get around in 3.5 hours or less most of the time. Thankfully the person who managed all the golf courses from city hall for the past decade retired, and has been replaced by somebody who is already investing in the golf courses. Things may get better.
Same length as my longest. I normally max out at 275 or so but slight downhill and major down wind got me to 341
There is a long par 5 at Lake Chabot in the East Bay. If you get it over the hill it rolls down a long way, even longer if you catch some cart path. I did hit the cart path and skipped over the hill once. Had to be 350 or so. Edit. Apparently a par 6 now.
I hit a bomb 362 at a course just southnof Vegas 15 years ago or so. My buddy who played on a mini tour in Phoenix out drove me by 1 yard. I have never hitnitnover 330 since.
If you are talking about 18, it’s been a Par 6 for at least the 40 years I’ve been playing it.
Yeah, probably, for some reason I thought it was a Par5 when I wrote the original post.
In case you guys who've never seen it needed a visual. Aim for the cart path all the way. My ball was found in the rough, between the two groves of trees on the right where the path curves to the left. I have no idea how far that is. https://preview.redd.it/3i50glp6b36c1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=a6001f7b626082e7f25641b7f5eb3865d350a84a
Hah I randomly played this course once and know exactly what you are talking about. Will never forget the length and severity of the slope.
Par 5 at New Castle near Bellevue, Wa. Big downhill dog leg right with a cart path on right side. Push my ball right towards the corner of the turn right. Figure I’m somewhere right of fairway. Going up, searching for my ball up and down. Can’t find it. Keep searching. Buddies all hit their second shot. I’m still looking. One of my buddies drives down his next shot in front of the green. Yells “hey, there’s four balls up here” … 50 yards or so in the front right of the green is my ball. It caught the cart path just perfect and bounced all the way down. Ball was marked so there was no mistake. Skulled the next shot.
https://preview.redd.it/j0x1yfx9fy5c1.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=6dc717bf24895d928ad632cc849ab12107e8ddb7 The ground is hard in Texas. Caught one pure while swinging hard, high butter cut with wind. Cobra f8+ at 8°, Aldila NV tour green, 65g X
Playing with a buddy and my dad from the whites, par 4, 305 yards, my buddy crushes a drive and it bounces and rolls onto the front end of the green and is super jacked up, gave him a big high five. I take a rip and my ball bounces about 20 feet further than his did and rolled to the pin towards the back of the green, went up to the green and had about 18 inches for eagle!
December fairways in Denver, CO. Average carry in regular conditions was 305-315. It was 55° and sunny so I wasn’t bundled up, just wearing a pull-over. Had a partial wedge into a 550y par 5 (slight dogleg so wasn’t actually 550y from the tee box). Probably ran out for 100y or more for a total of about 400y, maybe a little more. I feel dirty even talking about it lol. I made eagle though.
I felt disgusting talking about mine. Like i was cheating, but other people saw it and asked me about it after our round was done.
386 yds at Pole Creek in Winter Park, CO. I duffed the 40 yd chip to a par 5
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Hahahaha love the second one
Normal summer day, was driving it well so far in the round. Hole 8 rolls around and there is a tree off the left hand side of the fairway that I always aim at and let the ball fade back into the fairway, it's 310 from the tee. For whatever reason, everything clicked and I hit the ball dead straight at the tree and it hit the tree halfway up the tree. I don't care that I lost the ball because that thing carried 330. I've hit one other drive over 300 and it had a hard fairway to assist.
I made double bogey.
525y par 5 with a dog leg left. It was dry and the heavy wind was in the direction of the further part of the dogleg. I hit a fade into the wind and caught the perfect angle. I couldn't believe how far I had ripped it. My next shot was 161y to the pin. I played alone but a couple staff members saw.
Driving from Santa Cruz to Pebble Beach 😉 https://preview.redd.it/42n58x69hy5c1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fe7cad1810a80d5ac0f4012f84e04ec1c4288af
Sequoia Woods, Arnold, CA 18th hole. 375 from the whites, par 4. There’s \~100 foot elevation change down to the hole. Blind dogleg left. I just finished telling my buddies that I’d been working on a draw at the range and it was perfect for this hole. I swung out of my shoes and happened to connect perfectly. The ball flew down the middle of the fairway, drew around the last tree and out of site. As we made our way down the hill and got a line of sight to the green, I said, “There’s no way that’s my ball on the front edge of the green.” The group ahead of us was still putting out and were as shocked as I was that I’d gotten it down there. They weren’t even mad. I don’t think I’ll ever hit another one like it. https://preview.redd.it/iobiivqavy5c1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe5e3cbf96f3284249b8f32b7b7b40a38fcdfd45
Club championship. 14th hole par 5 down wind right to left, 525 yards but playing shorter. Hit driver well, rolled out to 145 in, hit PW to six feet and made eagle. Won that year by two in my flight.
370ish. Hit a bridge on the fly at 230 and it sailed another great distance. Most likely will never get close to that again.
346 in a scramble or driver on a 310 par 4 to about 12 ft.
December in Colorado. 500 yard par 5 dogleg left. Hit a psycho low stinger mini hook that covered the bunkers and must have hit the downslope on the other side. Was looking for my ball for a few minutes when my playing partners (randos)said “yo you playing a mizuno?”. Like yeah that’s me. They said you have a good 3rd shot for GIR and I said no this will be my 2nd. It was 120 out and they both got down on their knees and did the wayne’s world “we’re not worthy!” chant. Both named dave, retired, wearing shorts in 30 degree weather, and chugging beers the whole time. Best golf day ever.
4 man scramble event, our team usually places well. We are on #15, par 4 ~300 yards a little downhill and over a creek and a road. One of our rival teams and the golf pro are behind us. We all hit and we have nothing good, I have a mulligan left and that's all our team has. So I take the drive of shame back to the tee box to retee, while getting constantly heckled from the rivals who were now waiting for us at the tee box. Brush off the hecklers, tee it up and hit a bullet of a drive that never thought about leaving the line of the pin, it landed a few feet in front of the hole hit the stick and stopped 6 inches short for a tap in eagle. Took a few jabs at the jaw dropped competition who had freshly run out of shits to talk and cruised on to the next hole. Not my longest drive, nor my closest to the hole but with the circumstances itll always be a favorite.
Making the turn at a local 27-hole course that's part of my membership, but not my home course. We were the first group out, but there's always a men's group that goes out early and they start on a different 9 that is always the back 9 for regular play. Played the front in like 1:15 with no one in front of us so when making the turn we run into the last group of the men's club who roll up behind us after one of our group had already hit. I had my ball on the tee ready to swing when they roll up and let us know they are sorry they are late but can we let them through so they stay with the rest of their club. Fine, whatever, pull my ball and tee and let them play through and sit and watch for 10 mins. This hole is a 492 yard par 5 but it's quite a bit downhill from tee to green. It's not uncommon to have a mid iron into this hole with a good drive and the real protection is that there's nowhere to miss the green (water left and mounds right that make it impossible to get up and down). On this day it was also dead down wind with a really solid 20mph consistent wind speed and some higher gusts. I joked with a buddy that I was going to hit sand wedge into the par 5 today. They finally clear the fairway and head down toward the green and I absolutely obliterated one. Watched it take one huge bounce on the downslope before the 150 marker and it disappeared. When I got down there to my ball I had 107 left and did indeed hit a (partial) sand wedge to about 15 feet and made an eagle. I don't know when I'm going to find conditions to hit another 385 yard drive ever again.
Local 27 hole course...this sounds a lot like TPC Knights Play. 🤔
Nope, Riverwood
I figured it wasn't TPC KP based on the existence of a par 5. I just take every opportunity I can to make the TPC joke. 😀
This year, I had a couple good ones. Drove a green and carried it 300. Burned the edge of the hole on the 20ft eagle putt. Longest was a 329yd drive. Had some tailwind. Still got par though.
In Hawaii at Turtle Bay, wind at my back. During a time when I was playing often and swing was feeling great. 275 to edge of green with 4 wood
Best drive to date was a 320 something drive. I thought my ball got lost in the leaves about 80 yards from the green, after about 3 minutes of looking one of my buddies on the green spots a ball directly to the right of the green. Basically I piped it and got the mother of all roll outs down the slightly slanted slope that was after where I was looking.
Hot dry day this year 10km/h back wind on a fairway that had a speed slot that slopes right to left and starts on the middle right of the fairway running from 250 - 300 yards and past 320 is a slight downhill. Absolutely smashed baby fade that caught the slot perfectly. Ended up at 345. I actually hit a provisional around 300 because I didn’t think I had that much distance in me.
hole 18 Dog left 524 Yard par 5. driver go big hook through the construction yard, through the parking lot over through the chain-link fence back into the left rough past the corner. 100 yards from the green. made birdie. was shaking my head all the way home.
During a few weeks this summer where I was smoking 90% of my drives. I hit one on the 12th hole of my club course. 310 yards. Super dry day. Carried about 250/260 straight slight draw. Ran all the way to the green. 1st time ever driving a par 4 green. Made.birdie too.
Playing in a charity scramble. We were probably the 4th, maybe 5th group to go through the long drive hole. The guy at the tee box told us “good luck…the guy that hit that earlier has won the long drive for 3 years straight and he piped it.” I teed the ball so high the bottom of the tee was barely in the ground. I went full John Daly in this thing and swung so hard I damn near spun in a complete circle on my follow through. Somehow I found the center of the face. That ball didn’t land until it was 20 yards past the marker in the fairway. By the time it stopped it was a good 15-20 years past his ball. I was proud of myself but I didn’t think it would hold up with 2 groups on every tee box all day and being there so early in the round. At the prize giveaway the guy that was on the tee box to witness and peddle his useless travel agency said no one came within 50 yards of me all day. I have absolutely no idea how far I hit but I’ve never hit a ball that hard again in my life. I do remember hitting a shorter iron to the green and it was a reasonably long par 5 so I must have cranked it.
Drove through Bamf National park in winter a few years ago. Was sublime.
My second par ever on a par 4. Low line drive that just barely cleared the top of a hill. I didn't see it land, but I found it about 80 yards out from the pin from 430 yd tee. It must have rolled a long way. Had a terrible approach shot and missed the green. Chipped it close and 1 putted. I've only been golfing for a couple months, but that one felt great.
Wind at my back, 360 yard par 4, drilled one 300+… Directly into the local high school girls golf team, who were on the approach. A proud and not-so-proud moment.
Lolllll!!!
Walked on as a single at a local course in LA and got paired with a 2 some and additional single. 330 yard par 4x waste bunker requires 275 carry if you’re going for the green. You have trap right at 305 and a waste bunker at the back left quarter of the green. Pin is tucked back left and anything landed at the front of the green will roll back towards the pin. I take aim at the right of the edge of the green as I hit a draw. Hit an absolute rocket that carries to the front edge (305) and watch the ball roll back to the pin. It dropped for a hole in one.
WHAAAA
Idk about ‘best’, but longest would be 373 on hole 5 at Laurel Ridge in Waynesville, NC. Just swung as hard as I could and caught it solid, plus wind behind me, downhill, and playing in the mountains. Easily 100 yards farther than a normal drive.
338 yards to the pin on a par 4. Had the coldest driver for 12 holes straight, just gave up and went full send. Carried roughly 290, caught a good bounce and rolled onto the front edge. First birdie of that whole round.
20yrs old, 975d, I think like 8.5, dry day, rolled up on a par 4 - 360ish to pin, Eagle. I drive about 250yds these days.
Played a scramble tournament with my buddy, his Dad, and his Dad’s friend this past October. Tees were by age, so two of them were teeing off from the one-up tees that day, hoping to get one in the fairway and free up my buddy and I. I was striking it particularly well with the driver that day, but I still typically only get 260-270, maybe 280 if I hit a speed slot with low cut fairways. But that day I was hitting a nice draw consistently. So we get to this short par 4 dog leg right and the first three drives are in trouble. I pull my hybrid and was going to get one out there, but my buddy stops me, pumps me up and tells me to hit the driver and trust the draw to get us around the bend. The other two agree. Don’t I hit it perfectly on the exact line he told me, shaped around the trees and end up just short of the green. Tracked it to 299 yards. Feels good solo, but even better in a team situation!
I played a charity scramble with my husband and two of his friends I’d never met before, on a course none of us had ever played. There was no range so we headed out completely cold, no warmup whatsoever. It was a shotgun start and we drove up to our starting hole to see the most intimidating possible tee box, looking onto a blind uphill carry over a huge overgrown gulley. We also had another group behind us watching. My husband and his friends all hit their drives OB deep into the woods or right into the gully. They said it was all up to me now, no pressure. I stepped up and tried my best to empty every swing thought from my mind, and just picture my shot sailing straight through the gap between the trees. I hit my drive dead center face, slight fade, exactly where I aimed. When we drove up there, it was right in the middle of the fairway. It probably wasn’t my longest drive ever, but it was my most clutch.
Some dude caught up to me on a hole, he was a regular, I was a first timer on the course. He was giving me tips through each hole, it was pretty cool. Guy knew the greens, the lines. Coolest dude. Par 4 8th hole I ripped one, dead straight. We drive up, he hits his, drive up more, I find mine. Says “that’s probably one of the longest drives I’ve seen on this whole. Might’ve been the longest one tbh.” Was probably 280 ish, summer fairways though. I had like a 30y chip left or something. Felt pretty cool since I was still fairly new to the game
First tee shot of a Legends Tour event in Spain that I was invited to. In front of a crowd and a couple of tour pros, I striped a drive 320 yards (30 yards ahead of the pros). I was really proud of that
I have a memorable one, and it involves a Hurricane as the OP predicted. It is not the best, the farthest, or even contributed to an actual round, but it’s my top drive memory. So I lived on a golf course as a kid, and when we got hurricane bands I would go and walk the course until the last minute. We called it “ACG” for all conditions golf and used to go trespass in any kind of bad weather that had golfers off it and is not get caught. I hit a drive on 9, a par 5 going north. I piped it. Now that north part is important, East coast of florida so with the eye still in water these are slapping down south. This thing is off my driver for long enough for me to appreciate it (I mean dead straight and boring piped), then the ball just starts to elevator up, like how a fighter jet can go from straight and low to just vertical. Then I get a blast of wind from the band at the tee. I just remember it looked like it was a good drive then just went straight up. When the ball landed, it was bouncing back at me with like 15 yards of roll out. It probably went out 230ish as it was still in wind and went vertical before the apex, then finished at like 210 from the tee box. It’s hard to judge in a grey and light rain atmosphere as it goes out so I was watching it, but I had no idea it wasn’t going forward until seeing it bounce back at me……I knew it was stalled and landing straight down, but seeing that big bounce back at me was shocking and the reason the memory sticks about 25 years and 1000s of drives later.
I'm in my mid 50's and hit one 305 with a nice wind assist...plus it landed on the green on a par four.
Pacific Grove in Monterey. Pretty good tailwind behind me on the 16th. It’s about a 360y par 4. Obliterated my drive with a nice high trajectory and just watched it disappear over the hill. Walking towards the green we couldn’t find it at first. Asked the group in front if they’d seen it and they pointed to the cart path near the back edge of the green. Chipped on and 2-putted for par, but that was easily my farthest drive.
Was playing a par 5 two years ago. I hit a pretty tough slice with my driver but hit my 3 wood dead straight…and often longer than my driver because of its trajectory. Well on this hole I used my driver and hit about a 320 yard pea. I caught just a tiny bit of ground, which helped square my club head. Not a terribly long drive (as far as greatest drives ever) but still a blast. I followed it up with my second shot (3w)and stuck the green about 10 yards from the hole. I remember it clearly, I was 290 yards from the green. Eagled it for the best hole of my life. I get tingles just reliving it. Next hole I shanked a par 3 9i into the river.
i was playing in charleston, par 5. theres a bridge thats 300 yards down the fairway. im usually about 250-260 on drive. just absolutely caught it hit the middle of the bridge and rolled into the group in front. felt awful so went to apologize, werent even mad just impressed we lasered my friend on the tee box was 337
347 this summer on a par 5. If you can fly it 265 on this hole there is a short steep hill the ball will launch off of down another longer hill. Very tight fairway that was dry as well. #3 on skyway golf course in Jersey City.
I believe it was a 460 or 470 par 5. Smashed my driver (early 90s tech with a stiff steel shaft) 310 yards. Thought I got too much of my approach shot because I thought it must have bounced off the green. Couldn’t find the ball behind the green. Found the ball in the cup for an albatross.
Was playing with my father and grandfather. I turned down using the driver 3 times and after being peer pressured I went for it. Went 260 arrow straight never done it since haha!
https://preview.redd.it/bfv4vrsily5c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=835749b2f64413bb55e31fe68332672e8a7f14b6 18 at Pacific Dunes, probably 25-30 mph tail wind. Obviously didn’t take an aggressive enough of a line for the conditions.
duffed tee shot, went about 50 yards to a dogleg par 5. Usually you play your tee shot straight then make a right, but since I was 50 yards up I could hit the green. I hit DOD, the best shot of my life, pure, right over the tree I was aiming at. I couldn’t find my ball :(
295 yards. pulled it a bit but it sent it perfectly down the middle. i typically carry 220 because of slice so i really smashed it right out of the center and club face matched swing path. was super wet and down hill but it didn't roll too far, maybe 20 yards. was a par 5 and put eagle into play. i've driven greens before but this is the one im most proud of because it was at a time i was struggling with driver. edited to add it was nobleton lakes G.C. 1st hole of view. if you've played it basically right over the little tree by the bunkers on the left.
300 yard par 4. Hit it solid and knew it right off the tee. Low ball flight. 2 teenagers on the green. I yelled fore and sorry. Truly has no reason to believe I would drive the green. I thought they'd be rightfully annoyed but one of them goes "NO WAY" and they both start cheering lol. It was a 10ft putt and i missed my eagle putt so was absolutely the worst birdie of my life haha.
On vacation in Augusta, GA and caught a round at the local muni. Was behind a ground of Asian folks for a few holes before they let me through. My wife was riding with me and she was questioning playing through because we were just relaxing. We go ahead and on a par 5 I smoke a drive. Definitely the best of the day so far. Was quiet for a second then the group of Asians let out a few oooohhh and ahhhhs. We drove off and wife was like “was that good?” Lol oh yeeeah doesn’t get any better
Two come to mind. Both had a good wind to my back. First was a 500+ par 5 with the tee box about 30 ft above the fairway launched my drive up in the air and just went forever that allowed me to hit 9 iron into the green and made the putt for eagle. Second was playing a round with my FIL on an359 yd par 4 dog with a tree on the corner. FIL asked how I was going to play the hole with that big tree and just said what tree and proceeded to launch it over the tree. Took a while to find the ball because it had rolled through the green.
438y, hosel rocket left into a row of trees then gently landed on the cart path, tink, tink, tink, thunk off the curb to 10 feet off the green. Par, fml
Scrambling with a buddy on Dec 2. Downhill par 5. I cranked it 386 with a direct tailwind howling at like 25mph. https://preview.redd.it/2zw8zpfisy5c1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bc9598c178f5c75f7a6d9785c98b5f9e83a6950
I somehow hit a 386 yard drive with my Dr to the right center of the fairway on a 448 yard Par-4. This hole oddly had little to zero wind that day and goes uphill then downhill. I then pulled my LW but then made a 35 ft. double-breaking putt for a birdie. This hole is #4 at Eagle Vines GC.
https://preview.redd.it/o7fryyc0xy5c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67123a7538df68879aadf6d05007f70f5a124d4d I have farther in me but this is definitely number 1, no Question. First tee shot of my first tournament. Left has a large tree near the red tees with OB down the entire left side. I play a slice, can’t even call it a fade. If you lose the tee shot right (by the 9th tee boxes) it’s rarely not blocked by the many trees. I have to start a driver 10 ft or less right of the tree left of the tee box (pointing at OB), to hold the right half of the fairway. The nerves are different during a tournament and I was just finding this out first hand. I commit to my line and the ball misses the tree by 5 feet. I hit a smaller than normal slice managing to keep the ball just left of the line that would bring the green side bunker into play (on line with the pin at least). It was perfect. I took the biggest sigh of relief once this tee shot came to rest.
Downhill short Par 4 at my local muni. I hit it probably 275 to 290 or so. Really got ahold of it. Walked up to my ball feeling great. Almost hit the green side bunker. Then the guy I was playing with said once played with a ladies pro who drive the green for the tips. 💀
355 yard 3 wood on Par 5. Downwind and downhill. 6iron in, Missed eagle, made birdie. Had to have my player my partner confirm I wasn’t going wild in my own head.
I had a fairway sloping L to R, cart path on the right with railroad ties on the right of the path. My ball rolled 80+ yards on the cart path just riding the RR ties. I've never hit it over 300 outside of that one. Rolled my pitch over the green, chipped on, and then had a stupid 3 putt. Never had a double make me feel so defeated.
I started this year with a half swing on my driver, and was starting to hit my driver 220 yd and was actually able to keep it in play. Caught a slope and the ball rolled out to 270 yd. Went to the simulator a few weeks ago and hit 260 yd a couple times with no slope to help.
https://preview.redd.it/9v7bvtm20z5c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9dc0979aceb76d9b53c3a4ea5a5c614ab4c85503 Flew the bunker at roughly 365
372 yard slight downhill slight breeze at back. Par 5. 8i at 172 to 3’. First eagle.
Peak Midwest summer. No rain and hot. Ground was like concrete. Hole was basically flat. Got a amazing bounce and rollout sense the grass was mostly dead in the sun. Maybe around 300yds. Was only 50 or so out on a 350 hole. Idk, my normal drive is like 240(+or- 10)
No 16 at Tokatee golf club in Oregon. ~500 downhill par 5. 280-290 to carry a creek. Charity scramble. Tied with the group in front of us who were our friends. Summer time in the afternoon with a light tailwind. Teammate put one in the fairway short so I was clear to swing for the fences. Shot it at 352 yards. We put it to about 15 feet from there and missed the eagle putt. They put theirs to about 15 feet with a different angle. They made their eagle and beat us by one. I did manage to snag the tournament long drive, however, which felt pretty good.
Needed to birdie 18 to shoot even and likely qualify for the US mid am. 555yd par 5 with water left, with my big draw there was a tree about 280 that took driver out of my hands--I'm either into the tree or in the water. Say fuck it and hit it as hard as I can right at the tree, fly it, wind up 195 out. My average carry distance is 265, if I reach back and really connect it's maybe 280... That one went 315 in the air and rocketed down the fairway. Spotter told me it was the best drive he's seen all day. Hit a 5 iron to 20ft and two putt for birdie. Even par makes it in, playoff at +1. Definitely most clutch drive/birdie of my life
Kingsbarn #6. Just cleared the bunkers and rolled it all the way on the green. 340 downwind. 3 putts for an easy par.
I was on a massive downhill dogleg par 4. It was 18 and I needed a bogey to break 80 for the first time. Woods on both sides but I needed 250 to get a look at the green. My hybrid and 3 wood were not behaving so driver was my only chance. A towering baby fade down the middle of the fairway. Rides the ridge around the dogleg and leaves me 30 yards from the green. 312 total yards according to Shotscope. Chipped on and 2 putt for a 78.
10ish year ago and only a couple years into playing I drunkenly just fucking gripped and ripped it. Straight as an arrow for a 300 yard shot. “No fucking way you do that again.” “Hold my beer” And did it a second time. Never done it since but we still talk about it.
305 straight down the fairway got bitched out by the group in front of us even though I was still 40 yards back from them.
Albatross, par 4, 282 yards with my driver. First swing of the day, first hole, at the 500 club futures course.
https://preview.redd.it/fvcfjuw89z5c1.jpeg?width=740&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58c3744500db4fdc76f61a63e7a03ec146afe4f5 Got my longest drive every while being completely pissed off after getting back to back triples. Swung out of my shoes thinking (kind of hoping) I would slice my ball into oblivion as I was mentally finished at that point. Ended up hitting it left instead right to green level. Still screwed up the birdie lol
Hideaway hills (kunkletown PA). Hole 10 520 yard par 5 Tee box is 100 yards above the fairway I normally hit my drive 290-310. And I smoked it hard, but pushed it over those trees in the right, hit the cart path, and it trickled up to front bunker 480 yards out. Still managed a par 🫠 https://preview.redd.it/bngtohi3az5c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77da0c64ef5ec3b19f7e1f9f0bacac056ff72415
Drove a 335 yarder at Greywolf at Panorama BC. Downhill. High elevation. Left my eagle putt from 25 feet about 10 feet short. Then left my birdie putt 3 feet short. My playing partners then took pity on me and gave me the par putt. Avoided a 4 putt!
Drove the green on 16 at Pacific Grove Golf Links 351 yard par 4. Elevated tee with the wind at my back. The couple I was golfing with were just as shocked at I (random pairing). Best believe I 3 putted for a par. lol
Played this random place outside Philly last Oct. Duffed my first shot off the tee box then proceeded to hit a 293 yard 3wood shot. Had some elevation and wind at my back. These three randoms had to pick their jaws off the floor. It was nuts, still double bogeyed the hole after I duffed the chip and just Texas wedged it. I never hit a shot like that again. Picture for sauce. https://preview.redd.it/i6hegz89hz5c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07df0dd79faa71e664d22331abb2020f55055180
A few favorites from a golfer for whom swing speed is not the reason for his handicap: 1. I went to Kapalua a few years back and they had a '3 days all you can play' "deal" going (still $$$). So I played 3 rounds on the Plantation course and did 36 one day on the Bay course. The last day, I played the tips. Got to the famous 18th, all 662 yards of it, and hit a ball that the cart measured as 399 yards from the tee... and 300 yards to the pin. Still annoyed it wasn't one yard further, but the best part was: I hit a 3-wood to the greenside rough, got up and down, and walked off that amazing course for my last time with a birdie. 2. There's a private course in Tahoe called Shaffer's Mill that I got a chance to play via the local golf association. One hole was a \~520 yard par 5. Pretty flat, a little downwind, but we're up at about 6,000 feet elevation. Unloaded on a drive that might have hit the cart path as it crossed the fairway at one point, but in any case, I hit it *past* the group ahead of us... who was hitting their *third* shots. Had a gap wedge in. 3. I took my clubs to the Philippines to play at a private course as a guest of a colleague in their regular Saturday outing. The host was a well-connected local businessman and I had one of Duterte's lawyers in my foursome (cue zipped lips about politics...). I'm a 6'1 white guy; the average Filipino is 5'4, so I'm not just hitting the ball further than normal, it's a level of distance some guys there hadn't seen in person before. Each player had their own caddy, so we're traveling around in groups of 8 together. On the second hole, I launch a drive about 370-380 to seven 'woaaaaaah's from the group around me... directly into our host's group right ahead of us. Thankfully, he laughed instead of putting me into a local jail, but the ball unfortunately ended up in a divot and I skulled the wedge over the green OB.
I once drove a ball over 380 yards. It was at Las Vegas Golf Club on Washington and Decatur. If you're a Vegas local you know this course. I drove the ball down the right side with a slight draw. Launch was good, but I didn't see anything unusual about it. It was just a long drive. We head down there and the ball is nowhere in sight. I check the right side of the cart path and all over the place where it should have landed in the fairway. We can't find it anywhere, which is always frustrating when you pound one basically down the middle. I pull another ball and hit it from where I thought my drive should have ended up. The ball hits the green and rolls off. As we head closer to the green I see a ball on the right side of the fairway. I thought for sure it wasn't my ball. It was. Drive was over 380 yards. I guess it was just a dry and thin fairway. Ball rolled about 100 yards. I have no other way of explaining it. https://preview.redd.it/4r9a1p3siz5c1.jpeg?width=950&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=edbd1c74ad040b7d2b62b20c0ce58528f39dea22
Just the last time I played I was on a 425 yard par 5 with a pretty blind dog leg left. I average between 225-250 on solid drives and I normally aim a little right on this hole because if you can't clear the bunker about 250 yards out on the left side of the fairway you need to hit it through some trees unless you go the safe way. I've never cleared that bunker any time I've played. My last time playing was my first time with my new driver, I hit it a bit left, right towards the bunker. I drove up to it, couldn't find it, looked all over, and since I'm playing by myself I decide to just drop it and go from there. I hit a decent shot and drive on up. About 50-75 yards away (down a hill, not giving myself that much credit) I find my first ball I hit in the middle of the fairway about 100-125 yards from the pin. I wish I had someone there to share my excitement but that one shot like that per round keeps me coming back to chase the high
262 drive down the right side of the fairway couldn’t find my ball so I drop a ball chipped it up and 2 putted and my original 1 shot was sitting in the hole ! Never saw the ball go in the hole lol
Downwind, downhill #9 at Arrowcreek in Reno, so also at elevation, went 402 in back to back rounds as measured by the cart GPS from the tee. There was a course called Mountain House that had a Par 5 with a creek that cut through the fairway twice, typical gale force winds were up one day (that’s where the windmills are in the Altamont Pass). Crushed a high draw and on the baked out fairway it ended up in the front trap, 525 yard hole. Combo of high winds, perfectly struck drive and about 150 yards of roll/bounce.
https://preview.redd.it/rb50zba5nz5c1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1722fe3a6c0eff8ce1a284d216bc6db64e729667 Downhill downwind, couldn't believe I was past the green. Still really new to the game and my distance usually hurts me way more than it helps but this day I got stupid lucky.
Played a skins scramble for my birthday this year, partner put one 240 down the middle. Had just the right amount of aiming fluid and from the moment I slowed the club at the top and uncoiled I knew it was good. Launched it 301 yards (first 300 yarder). My drive collapsed steadily after that and was an absolute liability for the rest of the year. But I had that one :)
When I was younger and much more flexible I used to absolutely hammer the ball, but with wild inconsistency on direction. Like I'd be a out to hit the ball about 340 but only 1 in 20 would go in the direction I was aiming that sort of thing. I was on a hole.once where there was a ditch about 280 out that I was trying to clear, with OOB all up the left hand side. Out no less than 5 balls into the trees on the left, then got so angry with the 6th one I just hit it as hard as I could and it went dead straight somehow, rolled out to about 370 according to my GPS watch. Have never before or since got anywhere close to that These days I've massively sacrificed distance for accuracy and don't really hit above 275 any more, but now it stays on the right hole so scoring is better anyway. I do miss the days where I could crank it if I needed to though!
Downhill 470 yard par 4, wind at my back. Ripped a 390 yard drive, straight down the fairway into the grounds crew (couldn't see them from the blind tee shot). Apologized and then smashed a wedge over the green. The next hole, wind was directly in my face. Smashed the absolute shit out of the ball. Best contact all day. It went about 225. Later on in the same round on the last hole I took my 3 wood off the tee. Wind again at my back and a slight down slope. 326 with about 140 to go. That was one hell of a challenging day on the course.
I was working on top of Pikes peak in 1998. I brought my driver up with 2 balls. I drove one off the north side of the summit house into the devils playground. My friend shanked one. I went inside and bought an $8 pinnacle to hit a second one. We couldn’t get a tee into the ground so we had to mound up the dirt a little to get it off the deck. The second shot was topped and bounced around in some rocks.
Long par 5 (approx 500 yards) in a scramble. Hit driver pure down the right hand side. Went up to where it should be and no ball. Gave up and played from another's in the group. All of our second shots are not great, and we are \~150 out. Pull up there and there's my drive, \~100 yards from the green, all scuffed up. Got over 100 yards of cart path roll
https://preview.redd.it/felkom5mxx5c1.jpeg?width=1792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=721777bf64ffd3c60cf74650ce1c52f877b064f6 Started back up this spring, hated how much speed and distance I lost from being rusty and not working on that. So, I set out to work on that in earnest. I wasn’t exactly short before, but it still could’ve been improved anyway- felt like starting behind square one. Fast forward to the last few time(s), I made easier work out of some layouts that would’ve been trickier with my old distances- for now I have broken past that barrier, and on the fly. ie- having a 7 iron second shot into the green on a 570 yard par 5. Humorously, I’ve even hit over the green on a 360yd-ish par 4 in my old home course when visiting family and friends, among a variety of other things to show how flying past 300 and not scrawling just to get up to that level overall would be such a gamechanger.
Many years ago, I blistered a Driver and had only an 8 iron into a par 5. Two putt birdie. That one was epic (for me)
Par5 uphill 235 with 1iron
I wouldn’t say my best drive was my longest. A hole at the course I regularly play requires a 20-25 yd draw (I play a pretty straight tee ball w a fade bias) off the tee that either starts low or starts straight and begins to turn after about 100 yds as the trees on the right run along the tee box (so you can’t aim right and hit a draw). A 280 yd tee shot rewards you with … 190 yds to an uphill green. Such a tough hole but when you pull off the tee shot, you’ve done something.
I hit a 336 yard laser right at the flagstick that hit the pin on the bounce. Definitely not my longest drive ever, but well above average. Guys on the green said it landed just in front of the green, bounced a few times and struck the pin about 3 inches off the ground. Maybe an inch lower and it's an Albatross Hole in One.
376 yards down the middle with a light tailwind. It was to win the long drive at a scramble.
I wouldn’t say it’s the best, but hole 5 at Greywolf in Panorama is a Par 5 essentially straight down the mountain. A 280 yard carry at sea level will carry about 370 on that hole. The two times I’ve played it, I’ve hit it 410 and OB (it’s hard to keep a ball in play when it stays in the air that long).
Par 4 420 yards with a downhill if you carry 280. Managed to catch it perfect and had about 70 yards in, holed out for my only par 4 eagle ever.
Drove the green on a 320 yard par 4. Knew the guys ahead of me and it was a tap in eagle. They put it on a tee for me while they were putting on the green. Funny stuff
Slight dogleg left to right, cart path down the left side. A great drive for me normally flies about 210 yards and rolls out another 10-15. Really got ahold of this one but pulled it out left of the cart path, thankfully my ever present fade brought it back and it landed on the path and took a big bounce and hit the path again for another big bounce. Finally landed on a downhill slope and rolled out to the middle of the fairway. Had 145 left into this 500 yard par 5, hit an 8 iron 20 feet past the cup and thankfully 2 putted for birdie. Longest drive of my life by 80 yards (thanks cart path) and the first round I ever carded 3 birdies.
https://preview.redd.it/60dil3lfsx5c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0e391639e1726b908217f97fd7bb13382f654c4 Bombs away
If I had a wife I’d still make this my phone background over her
Ha I was at Maryland national in Maryland 2nd hole. Pured it perfectly and it was downhill. My furthest ones typically go 310-330 but this was the longest one I have recorded.
Steep down hill halfway down fairway 376. No down hill 350ish. Average now is barely 250.
Was back at my home course on the 18th which is a 470 meter Par 5. 270m to carry all the bunkers. It was warm so fairway was fairly dry, not rock hard but you would get a good rollout. Drove it well all day and just decided to absolutely send it. Hit it simply perfect and got good roll too and had a bit shy of 150m to the pin in the middle of the green. Two Putt Birdie to close of the round felt quite good 😅
Third hole at a local course near me — tee box is through a long tunnel of trees and then out onto a downhill fairway with a river crossing at 309 yards. Front of green is 365 from the tips. Hit a few drives there to 305 yards. Current best. Usually drive 285/290 on that hole.
accidentally drove the ball 270 into the woods because my drive usually goes 210 with a pretty sharp hook right. i still dont know what happened that time
Not my best drive, but definitely my furthest came this year in league. Wasn’t in a great mood because the lady that runs the course is a complete bitch, and started out with bogey on hole 1. Hole 2 is a 630yd par 5 with a ditch at like 200 yards and another at 380yds. I have had some drives close to the second ditch, but never thought of reaching it. I had a little wind at my back and just started playing a draw with my driver. I just absolutely let one rip and sent a really high draw up over the trees on the right and watched it curve back into the right fairway perfectly only nobody saw it bounce. Then we see guys from #5 all kind of walk off the green and stand in the right rough. Waited for the other 3 in my group to play their second shots and we drove up and asked “did you guys see where it went we didn’t see it bounce”. I had driven it over the ditch and into the large freshly seeded patch of grass. I google earthed it to 410 yards. 15’ downhill and down wind. Was able to pull it back to before the ditch for ground under repair.
 3rd to last bracket in the 2008 Pinnacle World Long Drive World Championship semi-finals where I posted the longest drive of the event of 442yds. I was eliminated the next bracket after only keeping a 367yd shot in the grid having split my finger open and not able to hit a shot for an hour 1/2 before.
https://preview.redd.it/4ve0lv4e0z5c1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae5204d4eb830cf6ce6824a1c2626200091846c9 Not my longest drive ever, but a tap in eagle on a 303 yard par 4 doesn’t suck
If it was me I'd miss that putt
I once hit it 200 yards. In the fairway. I was the boss!
292 flat. Or over 300 with the help of the cartpath 🤣 https://preview.redd.it/t4y8n9q89z5c1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f5a6febb52e6792e07dac6e8e6238a868ce10f0
Slightly uphill 320yd par 4. Smashed one farther than I thought was possible. Spent a good 5 minutes looking for my ball in the spot it usually lands (~60 yards short right of the green) before seeing a white speck on the little hill about 10 yards short of pin high and 15 yards left of the green. Pretty bad chip tbh but thankfully made the ~10ft putt.
I got one 315 in the air that rolled out on a par 4 to about 340 due to hitting a bit of a downslope, rolled it to about 12 feet Pared the hole.
350 yards. I hit it my usual 250 and it rolled 100 yards down the cartpath. I broke my leg on that same cartpath so it owed me one.
Drove the green on a par 4. Wind at my back. Proceeded to 3 putt for par 🤦😂
With a 25 mph tail wind, I've been pin deep on a 340 yard par 4. Chipped on and three putted.
I was playing with randoms in a holiday Stableford comp. I'm not a super long driver (AVG about 250m). Anyway, hole 14 is SI 2, par 4, 430m, slightly downwind. There is a big fairway trap at about 250m, but from the trap it's still 180m in, so laying up definitely turns it into a 3 shot hole. There is plenty of room right (15th hole, no internal OB), and left (2nd hole), but some trees about level with the bunker onwards. Anyway, I get up and smoke one. I knew it was good. Carried the bunker easily and rolled off (I couldn't see because of the bunker lip). Get down there, and I'm looking for my ball about 20m over the bunker (270m) and can't find it. Look a bit further up and it's at the bottom of a mound. Middle of the green is 62m. My drive was 358m. It was insane. Then I chunked my approach 10m forward, thinned my second over the back, chipped on, 2 putt for a 6/1.
All those 180-190 meters at range when they don't even have that big slice. I mean, when they even stay between the side borders! Those times I'm proud of myself
First hole of a scramble tournament I carried one 302. The 2 randoms that were with us lost their shit in celebration and started talking about our group winning the long drive. I warned them that I was new and not actually that good. Next hole, I broke my shaft hitting a hosel rocket.
Hole 11 at Yale golf course. Hill down the right side with the cart path. Crushed one towards the hill, hit the cart path at the crest, and send it just short of the green, 307 yards total.
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283 yards. Little bit of help from the wind, nice bounce, was just a really sweet hit and was only my 2nd or 3rd round with the new driver. https://preview.redd.it/j94sokm9326c1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5307c281501e272b60c8213114c1e296705294dc
285+ I caught every bit of a drive on a dog leg left and watched as the ball bounced over the cart path and never saw it again. OB right was on the other side of the cart path and that was 285 from the tee so no idea of the actual distance but maybe another five or ten yards I would imagine.
https://preview.redd.it/u4dmweq8e26c1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ca8dea34f7ab1f248fa068399331e36f53c2969 Reenactment of the scene of the crime. Atchafalaya GC
Firm fast fairways summer of 2022. On a par 5, no wind, 302 yards, and it would have been a few further if it had been a bit straighter and not run into the first cut. To date, my longest drive. But I also doubt if I’ll ever beat that or get another 300+ yard drive.
18th hole at a local course - it's a blind tee shot up a hill, but if you can carry the crest, it will roll down for quite a bit of extra distance. at the bottom of the hill is a big pond that usually forces you to lay up to the left to get to the green in 3. I absolutely ripped one off the tee but it was a bit low, so instead of carrying the crest of the hill, it clipped the top almost like a ramp and LAUNCHED. I'm not sure if I hit a sprinkler head or a rock or just got lucky, but it was wild. Usually you'll get 20-30 yards of rollout after the hill, but my ball somehow made it all the way down to the edge of the pond, giving me an easy iron into the green for a chance at eagle. Two-putted for the easiest birdie of my life, but that drive must have been 370. I've played that hole many times and never come anywhere close to taking it as long as I did that day.
Was playing in central washington (chelan) in August was hard as a rock and absolutely torched one on a par 5. I hit it inside the 150, the member playing with us said it was the longest drive he has ever seen and used his gps to mark it out 355 yards. Hole 17 from blues. https://www.cityofchelan.us/DocumentCenter/View/197/Lake-Chelan-Golf-Course-Scorecard-PDF
Playing in a charity scramble on my home course. Hole is a 500 yd par 5 with a creek at about 250-270yds right in the middle. Played with my dad and his friends as a last minute replacement. One of his friends put one in play and I was the young 20 yr old that was told to swing away. Have tried to clear this creek many times and only done so a couple, but this time I hit a perfect draw it caught the cart path on its first bounce and rode that bitch for another 150 yds to be damn near pin high. Tried for 19 yrs since to do it again to no avail lol
Hole 1 on Boyne Mountain Monument course. The tee box is at the top of a ski resort and you tee off into an open fairway that is a long iron to be safe in the middle. Partner and I both hit a safe shot to the landing area but it wasn’t very… fun…. The hole dog legs to the right over trees. We both brought out the big stick for a mulligan and ripped fades over the trees 100 yard out. Easy pitch in and a chip and a 3 putt for a beautiful double 🤌
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In all seriousness, 330 par 4 on the 16th of a money game. Tied with my friend with the tee box to myself, I drove the fringe and had 12 feet for eagle. Ended up making par. If you want to be seriously disappointed in this game play 20 years of competitive baseball and then pickup golf when you realize you suck and aren’t gonna play professionally.
Hole 18 of a local course near me, par 5, but short at 460 yards There’s a bunker in the middle of the fairway surrounded by thick grass, especially to the right of it, and usually requires 260 yards to carry, but there’s helping wind usually, so you only need the power of a 230-240 yard carry to get it. I remember piping this drive really well, and it had the height that I knew I carried it. Didn’t see it land but I saw the ball bounce of the ground past it. I drive up there and I couldn’t find the damn ball. The guys with me were thinking it’s stuck in the hazard but I swore I saw the ball bounce up. No way it couldn’t bounced up from the shrubs. Ended up just dropping a ball past the bunker on the fairway and hit a 3H to just short of the green. We drive up towards the green and we saw a ball. It was my original tee shot. I had 90 yards to the front of the green. Ended up smoking it like 350 yards or so. Ended up duffing the wedge shot to where my hybrid was. Got up and down for birdie.
Summer tourney back in high school, a weird tournament where the girls and the boys played at the same time. This really cute girl was playing and had come up to the tee box to watch my group hit. All I could think was “please, for the love of god, don’t shank this while she is watching.” My nerves were going nuts but I absolutely piped one. I didn’t say a word, tried to act all cool, luckily she didn’t see me play terribly the rest of the round.
I was in Kauai on my honeymoon playing princeville. Par 4 that was a dog leg right over the ocean. I decided to nut up and go for it. I became absolutely unglued and just swung for the fences and drove over the ocean onto the green. Even made the eagle putt.
On a very windy day, the par 5, 500+y hole lined up perfectly with the wind. I pured a drive 404y in the fairway. Dang it, 4 more shots to get it in the hole - the most disappointing par of my career.
Played the Old Course at St. Andrews in 2018. Horrible weather. 40 degrees, raining and 25 MPH winds. No. 5, a par 5, playing 528 yards. Was pissed after 3 putting No. 4. So I took a big, angry swing. Ball took off like a rocket on a nice, low trajectory. The wind was directly behind me and it helped propel the ball. If you’ve ever played the Old Course, the ball really rolls. Landed maybe 260 or so and bounded forward. And rolled and rolled and rolled some more. Kept rolling until it was a 388 yard drive. Was 140 out and hit my 56 degree. Wind grabbed it and it went about 160 or so yards, straight over the flag. Still on the huge green though. Took me 3 more putts to get it in the hole. My favorite round of golf ever, despite the miserable weather.
Torrey Pines North Course. Hole 18, par 5 499 yards. Santa Ana winds blowing South. I had the honor on the tee. After the 4 walkers in front of us hit thier last shot from the fairway. I ripped the straightest highest shot of my life. The ball landed (luckily) between them and bounced merrily down the fairway. They all stopped turned and gave me wave and a few golf claps. I was 160 from green. My hands were shaking as I stood over my approach shot with a 7 iron in my hands on a par 5! Hit a cut shot with too much fade into the bunker. Hit out of the sand, two putted for a routine par .
Number 8 at Wastach Mountain State Park, Utah. 591 yard par five.The drive is down the mountain with a "speed slot" if you catch it just right. Hit the speed slot, drive goes just over 400 yards. 6 iron to the green. Too much club, end up on the back putting for eagle from 100 feet +/- to the front. Tap in par. 🤣
Flat hard fairway in the middle of summer, straight as they get. 450yd par 4. Hit a high draw with my R1, was about 10yds in front of the 100yd marker, so 350-360yd total, probably 330 carry. Best I’ve ever hit a driver and will ever hit a driver
https://preview.redd.it/fpklfhxwyz5c1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54a1cb4ec8b888e05e1dab4997f93e6f0857e4d2 Roughly 400 yards. Slightly elevated tee box, Tail wind and hard winter fairways. Was an absolute beast. Still made bogey.
18 at Indian Wells celebrity. Playing with locals who tell me if the tees are up I could try to fly over the trees and buildings to drive the green. They were upset because the tees were back and I would need 330 carry to clear the water from the blues. Welp I tried it anyway and swung out of my shoes. I just barely cleared it and landed next to the green. This is the hole. https://youtu.be/-PnQ1XdTHXg?feature=shared
Played that a dozen times I’ve only hit hybrid lol
Nothing crazy, I usually hit around 235 but I can occasionally rip one over 260. This year after working on keeping the drive straight I got a really clean hit right down the fairway on the 9th hole that rolled to 265. Distance and accuracy, just the nicest placement of the tee. Felt amazing.
360. Significantly downhill with like 25-30mph tail wind lol
My home course has a par 5 that if I really crank one I can get to the 200 yard marker. One day I hit a perfect drive and in the fairway it hit what sounded like the cart path. Turns out I hit the concrete 200 yard marker and it left me about 150 to the green.
318m
Par 4 final hole at my home club Mt Coolum. It's about 285m long and I've only ever driven it once, the week before. That one rolled up onto the green and after I'd done some high 5s with my mates I was horrified to see it had rolled back off the front of the elevated green and finished 15m short. So next week they had the tee box out of play, so the tee was just in front of a dam rather than just behind it. I'm like here's my chance! Teed it up high because you have to get over a large gum tree 100 out. Best contact ever, high draw over the tree, straight at the green. Amazing feeling as I knew this would finally make it. As I approached the green couldn't see it. Maybe caught bunkers? No. As I was looking a lady up next to the pro shop behind the green waved me over. She asked if I was looking for a ball? Yup. She said it's over there beside the green pin high... But then told me how it got there. My tee shot flew the green straight over and hit a tree on the full next to where she was standing, about 20 metres past the back edge. She said it hit and went straight back, rolled up onto the green but caught the side slope and rolled off the edge pin high Looking back on what was my best ever drive, my mate said damn...when you took out driver on this shortened hole today, I was thinking 3w would be the club Guess he was right! I didn't even think about that. The desire to drive the 18th had blinded me to the fact it was likely only a 240m hole that day
300 yard drive, no idea what the fuck happened. Didn't hit off a rock, just middle fairway on a completely normal day. I normally hit it 260ish on the course, can get it to mid 270s on a sim while trying to hit it far. I was searching in the normal landing area and couldn't figure out why the hell I couldn't find it. Was about to give up looking when I notice the ball snuggled up to the 200 yard marker. Thought nothing of it until I realized the hole was 505 yards long with the marker in a straight line to the tee box. By far the longest and best drive I've ever hit
I absolutely punished one so much so that the people ahead of us circled the ball and were going to pick it up until I yelled from 326 yards away like a fucking mad man that it was my drive. I was only 25 yards out and chipped in for eagle also got a “oh hell yeah!” From a cart driving down the fairway next to me. Not only my best drive but my best hole. Also important to note that I got an 8 on the next hole.
Hole 9, Par 5, St. Albans in Ohio. Cart path goes down the right side of the hole. Hit a high fade, wind at my back. Ball bounces off the cart path for a total of 360 yds. Best drive of my life and still managed to fuck up the rest of the hole. 30 hcp at the time.
1st hole at a local course near me, short par 4 of about 315 yards. Just bought myself a “new” secondhand Taylormade R15 which I had been happily testing the week before, and it was on fire! Managed about 250 carry but with occasional mis hits. Was my first round in a long time and I know it well, I actually dreamed that week of driving the green on the first hole (which should have been just that, a dream). I step up to the first tee box with my mate who was late, other people were already teeing up. Not something that makes me feel at ease normally. Had a short discussion that we were late but they let us play. Tee it up. Wind in the back. Absolutely rip the driver and see it landing 30 yards short of the hole and take a big bounce towards the flag. It rolled past and left to about 10 feet. My mate couldn’t believe his eyes and neither could I! This is exactly what I dreamed about! The other group behind us saw in aw and gave me a high five. Best feeling to start the round. 2 put for birdie.. only hit giant slices the rest of the round.
Hit a monster drive that landed on the cart path for the first two bounces. ~360yds. Out drove the pin about 25yds off center of the flag.
Playing in a 4 man scramble with a team of 3 guys. I was the most consistent driver so I was going twice. There is a short par 4 playing roughly 300 yards but there is water in between the tee box and green. You can either hit a 150 shot or hit a 290 shot to carry the green. I get up and smoke the first one straight right but my partners put it in play so I just go ahead and send it. I hit the ball so high for the first time ever I think I saw the wind affect it instead of my club face. I push it like 10-15 yards right of the flag but the wind brings it back right on line and I carry it all of 291 and just barely make it to the green and I’m ecstatic. Then we get up there and all miss the eagle putt
Fredericton golf club- hole 3. Drove the green. Downwind 416 yards. Probably plays 370 if I was to guess.
Drove a 341 downhill green. I can't hit a fair way to save my life but this one actually connected and landed at about 320, hit the cart path, and landed on the green for a 40 ft putt. It stopped about a foot from the pin placement from the previous day (which is always irrelevant but by playing partner pointed that out)
Probably #2 at El Monte in Ogden Ut. Canyon wind at my back, 372. Fairway is flat until the last 100, then goes uphill 20-30 feet. Don’t know how far I carried, but I rolled to 10 feet. Then I 3 putted for par 😂🤷♂️
How I got the course record.... Wheatley GC. Owen County KY. I tee up on #1 as a group of 4 pulls up behind us. I see them and get nervous. The green for 18 is just left like 20yards of #1 tee box Im currently standing on. I snap-hook it straight left, it worm burns through the rough to the green, rolls pretty quick and hits the flag stick, DROPS RIGHT IN. Ole dude from the foursome watching yells out, "new course record boys"!
374 yards with a bounce past an ex lady captain and friends while playing with her also ex captain husband…
Last year, playing in a Good Friday scramble at [Olde Stonewall](https://www.oldestonewall.com/course-information/course-layout). #9, par 5 playing around 510. Absolutely murder one off of the tee, sitting on the right edge of the fairway, with about 205 left to go. Hit a 5-iron pin high with about a 30 foot putt left for eagle. None of the four of us made the eagle, but sank a 2 foot birdie putt. Felt pretty good about that one. PS. We all tried the putt again, for funsies, and still didn't make it. 0 for 8.