Shot of the Day

Last sunday in Bad Saarow I played a quite pleasurable round on the Stan Eby course. On the Par5 17th (the one with the biiiig bunker on the left side of the fairway), I found myself with the lie pictured above.  In the light rough, with some 140 meters to the pin. I had to wait quite some time for the foursome ahead to leave the green. As soon as they had left, I gripped my seven iron, practice swing, adressed the ball, easy swing, solid ball contact, the ball starts a little to the right but then curves back left, following the contour of the fairway, comes down a couple of meters short of the green, rolls onto the green and comes to rest just two meters left of the pin.

This was exactly how I had this shot in my head before making it. Awesome feeling.  Proudly I walked up to the green, birdie putt was a fraction short of the cup, settled for par. But it was the shot onto the green that devinitely made my day. The rest of the round wasn’t to bad after all, 98 strokes, 37 stableford points net, 13 stableford points gross. Can I has more of that?