Oh for crying out loud.

[Cybercowboy]

Matt Wheatcroft bounces his golf ball off a fence to get on the green (http://i.imgur.com/zK7grAz.gifv)

[VITE1]

Awesome! !

[Chris Fowler]

Almost holed it!

[Rob]

Wow. Great shot

[island14]

Happy Gilmore could do that.. :datawiz:

[GentleBen]

But would you have as much heart burn if he had missed the post and the ball had sailed 60 yards out of bounds?

What do you think about a ball that hits a cart path and bounces an extra 60 yards down the fairway?

[Craig]

But would you have as much heart burn if he had missed the post and the ball had sailed 60 yards out of bounds?

What do you think about a ball that hits a cart path and bounces an extra 60 yards down the fairway?

It's the only way I'm on the green in two on a par four.

[Cybercowboy]

But would you have as much heart burn if he had missed the post and the ball had sailed 60 yards out of bounds?

That's what would had happened to me.

What do you think about a ball that hits a cart path and bounces an extra 60 yards down the fairway?

I'm usually OK with it, it's a likely outcome on several holes I play regularly. Sometimes it screws you though. There's one par 4 where, during a tournament, I hit the cart path that goes all the way down the left side almost to the green. My ball hit the cart path three times, propelling it way past the green and nearly OB, and I ended up getting a 6 on that hole. I estimated my drive at about 400 yards though. 330 yard hole, ended up about 70 yards past the green.

[Jeff '79]

What do you think about a ball that hits a cart path and bounces an extra 60 yards down the fairway?

It's the only way I'm on the green in two on a par four.

:rofl::rofl:

[boracayjohnny]

Sometimes one is good and sometimes one is lucky. Now, I believe this guy needs to practice just a bit more.

[Chuck A]

very not caring indeed
but a great shot

[Sea Six]

That's how I always played Golden Tee '99.

Bounce balls off stuff. Clubhouses, tool sheds, bears, an extra island or two, or just break windows and other stuff if you're hopelessly too far behind.

[Fasglas]

Great shot!

MY ball, however, would be somewhere on the other side of the fence and my club would probably be damaged.

Fact.

[99 pewtercoupe]

The goddess of golf can be very fickle

[Jeff '79]

The wife and I were playing a round in Kannapali on Maui back in the '90s and I bounced a tee shot off a Ferrari that was sitting in a driveway.
We got the hell out of there with the quickness. We moved right on to the next hole, as I didn't want to get shot.
Tough game, golf is....:Jeff '79:

[Cybercowboy]

Last month I was having a rough go of it on the hardest hole on that particular course. Hit a great tee shot, next shot went into the creek hazard that's about 100 yards from the hole (it's only a par 4.) However I could see my ball OK in the dry creek bed and hit it out, but it went left where there's a rock fence, which the other side is OB.

So now I'm laying 3 with my ball right up against a rock fence. I start moving rocks, they move surprising easy. I basically take the rock fence apart, hit my ball on the green, reassemble the fence somewhat, and walk up and make the putt for a 5. Rob, the guy keeping score, asks if I got a triple bogey. No, just bogey.

He's looking at me like I'm lying or something. I said two into the hazard, three out by the fence, four on the green, five in.

Rob says "Well you had a penalty in the hazard." No I did not, I hit out. "Oh." But then you had to take an unplayable by the fence, I saw your ball there you know." I took the fence apart. "You what?" I took it apart. "You can't do that!" Yes I can. Look it up. :D

[99 pewtercoupe]

Last month I was having a rough go of it on the hardest hole on that particular course. Hit a great tee shot, next shot went into the creek hazard that's about 100 yards from the hole (it's only a par 4.) However I could see my ball OK in the dry creek bed and hit it out, but it went left where there's a rock fence, which the other side is OB.

So now I'm laying 3 with my ball right up against a rock fence. I start moving rocks, they move surprising easy. I basically take the rock fence apart, hit my ball on the green, reassemble the fence somewhat, and walk up and make the putt for a 5. Rob, the guy keeping score, asks if I got a triple bogey. No, just bogey.

He's looking at me like I'm lying or something. I said two into the hazard, three out by the fence, four on the green, five in.

Rob says "Well you had a penalty in the hazard." No I did not, I hit out. "Oh." But then you had to take an unplayable by the fence, I saw your ball there you know." I took the fence apart. "You what?" I took it apart. "You can't do that!" Yes I can. Look it up. :D

Hey it worked for Tiger when he had some fans move a huge rock in tournament. If its good enough for him...

[Cybercowboy]

Hey it worked for Tiger when he had some fans move a huge rock in tournament. If its good enough for him...

Exactly, that's what another guy in our 5-some told him. He actually was paying attention to what I was doing, I think Rob was busy hacking it out of the bunkers on the right side. :lol:

The rule is if it's been placed there by man (not nature) and it's movable, you can move it. Tiger asked the official if that rock was put there by the greens keeper. They checked, sure enough it was, so he was able to move it. That little fence thing by this hole is just made of loose rocks, it's about 2' high and about that thick also.

[Stangkiller]

Damn lucky shot!

[lander]

Exactly, that's what another guy in our 5-some told him. He actually was paying attention to what I was doing, I think Rob was busy hacking it out of the bunkers on the right side. :lol:

The rule is if it's been placed there by man (not nature) and it's movable, you can move it. Tiger asked the official if that rock was put there by the greens keeper. They checked, sure enough it was, so he was able to move it. That little fence thing by this hole is just made of loose rocks, it's about 2' high and about that thick also.


Weeeelll...not exactly. If the stone fence marks the OOB, then it is an immovable obstruction for which you get no relief and...you can't move it. In Tigers case it was in play and movable, so he was allowed to move it, with or without help because it was a loose impediment. Even if nature had put it there since it wasn't affixed to the earth and he could move it, he was allowed.

[Cybercowboy]

Weeeelll...not exactly. If the stone fence marks the OOB, then it is an immovable obstruction for which you get no relief and...you can't move it. In Tigers case it was in play and movable, so he was allowed to move it, with or without help because it was a loose impediment. Even if nature had put it there since it wasn't affixed to the earth and he could move it, he was allowed.

The stone fence wasn't the OB line. Close to it though. There is a road next to the fence, and white stakes between the fence and road. You could be on the other side of the wall and still have a shot.

[Admiral Blue]

If I tried that, the ball would either hit me in the face or the junk.

[stingraymyway]

Tin cup stuff going on.:rofl:

[GentleBen]

While playing at Callaway Gardens in Georgia several years ago with my father I watched as he hooked his tee shot on a down hill dogleg left hole. The ball landed in the swamp and I was happy to inform my father that he was now shooting three from the tee.

He replied that the penalty was only valid if his ball was "in" the swamp area but that as it could be easily seen on the surface it was only "on" the wet area. With that he pulled a seven iron and blasted onto the par four green in two shots.

Morale of the story: Don't try to teach the rules to someone who is older than you.:rofl:

[Kerrmudgeon]

Good thing my car wasn't parked where that post is. :rofl:

[Datawiz]

Exceptional!! :seasix:

[Iron Chef]

And if you like that one...

Phil Mickelson's Famous Backward Shot - YouTube