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Drove it 360 Yards. Outdriven by Son.


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Yesterday I hit a drive 360 yards. But, it wasn't as long as my son's drive. He's 14 and a scrawny little rail. How did we do it? Haha...we were playing Sunridge in Carson City, #14. This hole is probably the biggest downhill hole I've ever played, and we had about a 5 knot quartering tailwind. The way the hole is laid out, if you hit the fairway which is pretty perpendicular to how the hill-top tee box is aimed you'll go through into the dessert sage. I learned that the hard way last time I played there (which was my first time). So, this time we waited for the green to clear and let fly. It's really interesting to hit a drive like that! If you do it right the ball just goes out into the atmosphere and disappears. When we arrived at the green we were anxious to see the results and my son hit the green and rolled to the back edge. I was a few paces short of the front. I chipped and putted for a glorious bird while he missed a 4-footer to par (he was ticked...). That was something we'll both remember forever.

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My son started out driving me a few years ago. Fortunately I was usually straighter so I always scored better. At least until this year when he beat me twice. Humbling.

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Sons love to beat their Dad's on the course

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I love it!

 

Capper of our family trip a year ago was on The Old Course. Bringing it up because the entire way around my oldest daughter's caddie (who had played some mini tour golf and was a quietly fun guy) delighted in ribbing me about her outdriving me more often than not that day. I knew if he was teasing me, she was letting him know in her very nice way how much she was enjoying it, lol. I had my best round by far of the trip that day and she didn't have her best stuff coming into and around the greens, but boy she enjoyed a great driving day and she knew I enjoyed how much she enjoyed it. It almost came to a halt when she was too hyped up for 17 and banged a low right one off the side of the building (but ricocheted back onto the course), but when I hit a tentative fade on 18 to not screw up my round and she blew one by me down the middle, she and her caddie enjoyed making a point looking a ways back and waiting for me to hit my second (one of us hit the green, one of us wasn't smiling quite as big when she found the Valley of Sin, haha). Fun times.

 

OP - you guys keep playing! Don't get to play with my dad anywhere near as much as was possible a few years ago, and still remember fondly golf played with each of my grandpas when I was growing up.

 

Playing with your own kids is something pretty special.

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Yes, I've played several ~~incredible~~ memorable downhill holes as well. One was at the La Cantera Resort course in San Antonio, where they used to have the PGA Tour stop before they built the TPC course there. There's one short par4 where the tee box is up on a cliff left from a quarry, must be 100 ft high, with pond to the right, with green in the back, and behind the green was a roller coaster for Six Flags amusement park (now defunct I believe). Back in the day we used to go to San Antonio during Thanksgiving/Christmas breaks and play that fun course.....I was told during the PGA tournament, they would stop that roller coaster on the weekends but not for Thurs/Fri play. Son had reached the green, I was a little short. Photo showing shot from back tee (highest tee).... you can see (barbed?) wire protecting the edge of the drop off (that is scarry, tee area was so close to the edge and it's straight down (better not do a Gary Player walk-off after your drive)....wife was waiting below on the ladies tee (unfair, no height advantage) as we drove up to the top and we dropped a ball off the top, but didn't realize the ladies tee box was directly below and almost clunked her on the head, lol.

 

Another is a local course (The Canyons) where there's a par3 that is so high, ~150 feet above green which is straight down, can't even see the green from the back tee box, which I used a half-back swing 60-degree wedge and still overshot the green. More of a gimmicky hole than actual skill hole, but was worth the play and the laughs. The cart path looked like a triple version of that famous winding road in San Francisco, with so many "S-turn" zig zags all the way down.

 

> @Bebsport678 said:

> I’ve played a few holes with massive drop offs and it’s a ton of fun. Great story and thanks for sharing!

 

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> @BeerPerHole said:

> I recently downloaded the app Hudl and first tried it out last night at the range on my son. My gawd that boy can swing a club.

 

> @BeerPerHole said:

> I recently downloaded the app Hudl and first tried it out last night at the range on my son. My gawd that boy can swing a club.

 

Lets see it!

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> @4rheel said:

> > @BeerPerHole said:

> > I recently downloaded the app Hudl and first tried it out last night at the range on my son. My gawd that boy can swing a club.

>

> > @BeerPerHole said:

> > I recently downloaded the app Hudl and first tried it out last night at the range on my son. My gawd that boy can swing a club.

>

> Lets see it!

 

I'll try to load it up on youtube. Might be able to text it.

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Never beat my Dad. Never wanted to. I had him a number of times and hit some purposeful errant shots to make sure I lost in a close game. I just never wanted our games to change.

 

One of those Bomb it 300+ yards elevated tee to running away fairway. Just don't miss left... or play the desert. (Lookout Mountain in Phoenix)

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