This is a column where I list some of my memorable golf shots. Feel free to add yours in the comments section.

8/21/09 – Blacklick Golf Course – Hit a gorgeous approach into the par 5 11th and made the 15 footer for bird. Followed that up with a 25 footer for bird on the par 3 12th. Continued the love at the 13th with a 30 footer for bird. Had a shot for four in a row on the par 5 14th but missed. Still it was great to hit 3 birds in a row, especially at Blacklick! This takes me back to June 16, 2009. I was playing the par 4 13th and we had one of those rare days where the wind was behind us on that hole. I launched a drive that stayed in the air forever, soared over the sand trap and left me a 3/4 sand wedge to the green.

7/25/08 – Playing at The Phoenix Golf Course. Hit my first shot onto the green about 20 feet behind the flag. Decided to play another. The ball hit hole high and bounced dead right and ended up a foot from the hole. Glad I didn’t make it though.

6/25/08 – Bridgeview’s 314 yard par 4 5th hole. Stuck it on the green and four feet away in 1. But missed the tricky downhiller for eagle. Damn!

4/7/08 – After a short drive, I had 226 yards to the green at what is now no. 3 at Bridgeview. I pulled out a three wood and hit a nice one right at the flag. The wind took it a little left of the flag. It hit the green and stayed on. When I got to the green, the ball had stopped 24 feet beyond the ball mark. Nice job TaylorMade TP2 Red!

par 4 eleventh hole at Cook’s Creek

10/12/07 – drove the green on no. 11 at Cook’s – had a shot at eagle and just missed made comeback for birdie

No. 2 at Bridgeview

After playing nine holes at Bridgeview without a birdie, I decided to play the first two holes again to see if I could ring up a bird before leaving. For my third shot on the second hole, I was left with about 145 yards to the pin. I flared my shot out to the right and was left with the angle you see above to the pin. Seeing no chance, I decided to hit it right into the tree in the middle and pray that my ball somehow got through the tree. You might be able to see the flag just to the right of the tree. I took out a lob wedge and blasted it into the tree. It hit a small branch and deflected to the right a little bit. From there it hit the green and rolled left, right into the hole for a tweeter! Yeah!

Number 14 at Split Rock Golf Club

September 11, 2007 – Here’s the par 4, 14th at Split Rock Golf Course. It’s a 289 yard par 4 from the whites and 314 from the blues. The blue tees were near the whites today and we were playing the blues. I cranked a driver and flew it on. What kind of a ball mark does a 290+ yard drive on the fly leave?

Ballmark on 14 at Split Rock

The putter head is for comparision sake. That was just a huge gash into the green. Did it stay on the green?

Putt remaining for eagle

Here’s the putt I had for eagle. I didn’t make it but did get it past the hole so it had a chance. I made the comebacker for birdie. That opened the floodgates as I went on to birdie 15 and 18.

August 10, 2007 – 9th hole at Blacklick Metro Golf Course. It had been a rough day and I said to my buddy that I needed to ace this hole to save the round. I took an 8 iron against a stiff left to right breeze and floated it high up into the air and to the left of the flag. It hit to the left of the flag probably about 4 feet away and spun back to the right about 7 feet away.

What was memorable was (after my buddy had hit) that I took another crack at it. Hit the same shot but a bit harder. It faded back onto the flag, hit behind the flag, and spun back and to the right to 3 inches from the hole. Not bad! Glad I didn’t make it though. It would’ve been the hole in one that I never could talk about.

October 16, 2005 – Granville Golf Course. Hit a nice drive off 18 and had less then a hundie to the flag. Was the last group in a tournament there and everyone else was standing around the green. Took out a sand wedge. The ball bounced on the green and in the hole for eagle to win the tournament by one.

April 6, 2002

I was playing at Minerva Golf Course and on the par 5, no. 7. I had a 5 iron to the green. I hooked my 5 iron shot right into the giant tree to the left of the green. The ball bounced off a branch, landed on the green, rolled across the green, hit the flag, seemed to pause for a second, and then in the hole for double eagle.

Thornapple Golf Course

I was warming up by chipping on the putting green. From about 30 feet, I hit one to within a foot. Another guy on the putting green said nice shot. I hit the next one in the hole. He said, “Bet you can’t do that again.” I hit the third one in the hole as well. He walked away dumbfounded.

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