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August 19, 2010
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
A lucky shot, from that same youtube feed. If they had a golf competition of zany shots like that gong one, I'd watch it.
posted by apoch at 07:02 AM on August 19, 2010
apoch: I noticed that the ball settled just outside the painted red line. Would that shot still be ruled as in the water even though it's on land? If not, then what is that painted red line for?
posted by NoMich at 07:13 AM on August 19, 2010
A highlights package from a golf competition of zany shots would be good, but I imagine they were there for a fairly long time before the pride of Swindon (David Howell) managed to actually hit it. I liked his comment just at the end: "That's the first thing I've won for years!"
(Clarkey's ball finished in the hazard; he can play it, but mustn't ground his club before he does so)
posted by JJ at 08:59 AM on August 19, 2010
Pfft.
I'll see your "skip a ball across water" and raise it with "at Augusta" and "in the hole".
posted by grum@work at 09:26 AM on August 19, 2010
Yeah yeah yeah - that shot's only about 130 yards though *smirk*.
When they do that at Augusta, I do fear for the "patrons" behind the green. It's not hard to accidentally get into that shot a wee bit too much and it would rise, miss the water and the green and come into the crowd over the back at head height.
posted by JJ at 09:51 AM on August 19, 2010
Wow! All of those shots are just incredible.
posted by BornIcon at 11:12 AM on August 19, 2010
A highlights package from a golf competition of zany shots...
All they would have had to do is to video tape me struggling my way around the course most days.
posted by Howard_T at 02:59 PM on August 19, 2010
Wish I'd had a camera in June, when my drunken golfing buddy blasted one out of a greenside bunker, hit a tree behind the green about thirty feet up, bounced back onto the green and rolled twenty feet downhill into the hole for a birdie. Or when he pooped himself a little bit on the next hole.
posted by tahoemoj at 03:38 PM on August 19, 2010
My wife, who was 7 months pregnant at the time, skipped her tee shot on a 140 yd. par three to within inches of the cup. She fell over laughing and people on the next hole phoned the clubhouse, thinking she had gone into labor. Only birdie of her life.
posted by dviking at 07:26 PM on August 19, 2010
Al Franken added a whole new thing to be worried about when it comes to that community center in Lower Manhattan:
"...They're going to have a gym. They're going to have point guards. Muslim point guards."
posted by NoMich at 09:57 PM on August 19, 2010
Skim the golf ball across a lake with a 2-iron and hit a gong the size of a dinner plate 200 yards away? No problem.