Played with a buddy this Sunday. On a par 3, 190 yards downhill. Can see the entire green surface from tee. He struck an absolutely perfect iron. Already while in flight I said it can't be struck better.
Touch down. One skip. Ball rolled perfectly towards pin. GONE! Whohoo!
Cheers, joy, jumping up-and-down. Clapping.
Until....
We moved a yard left or right. Hmm. Is there maybe something white at the bottom of the stick?... Ball resting against the pin or what?
The ball ended up more or less one feet exactly behind the flagstick. There was no way we could see it from where we stood on tee. Must have been the perfect distance from behind the pin to hide the ball when looking from more or less the right angle.
The birdie was a gimmie, but one of the rare sour ones.
Anyway we got a taste of the excitement.
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When James Durham recorded 94 at the Old Course at St Andrews in 1767, he set a course record that lasted 86 years. Golf: A curious sport whose object is to put a very small ball in a very small hole with implements ill desiged for the purpose - Sir Winston Churchill
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