Your longest shot that went in the basket

[JR Stengele]

I had an ace at Mossy ROC hole #20 about 250 + going about 65 feet up on the signature hole "Mossy Roc". Used a first run champion beast.

 

[ERicJ]

I think it was Steady Ed who said that an ace is just "a bad shot gone good."

If you're playing a 300' hole and throwing hard/high enough off the tee to hit chains and you miss... you're going to blow past by usually at least 30'. For most people that's a 2-putt.

If you throw a tee shot to park it inside the 30' circle you will often take a 2 on the hole.

Given the statistically infrequency of aces the second scenario is a better tee shot in terms of overall score.

ERic

 

[bazkitcase5]

there are still too many variables to call it a bad shot - lucky yes, but its still a good shot as mentioned

if there is a backstop or something, you will not blow 30' past the basket - if you can throw 400' ft. then maybe your throwing a 300' hyzer shot (on an open hole), in which case you might not blow 30' past - if you know how to throw putters 300' then you know they will fly until they run out of speed and just drop out of the air, meaning you can run at the basket and still land within 30' of the basket...

not to mention throwing a 300' shot down a fairway without hitting anything and landing within 30' of the basket is usually considered a 'good' shot, just happens to not be an ace

 

[ERicJ]

if there is a backstop or something, you will not blow 30' past the basket

How much challenge is there in a hole with a backstop closer than 30' to the basket?

 

[zeromiles2empty]

370' upshot on hole 1 at the Hill course at Circle R ( Wimberly,TX ). Sweet Eagle!!!

 

[t i m]

My longest shot to land in a basket has to be hole 9 at Zebulon in NC. I was there for a tourney last year, and had never played the course before. Here's a description of the hole from the Zebulon site:

"Hole 9: (620 ft) The longest hole on the course requires a long straight drive (300+) to have a shot of getting close in 2. The fairway dogwoods left with the basket down a hill and tucked slightly to the left. (Par 4)"


I put my first drive out and shank it a bit left. It hits trees and lands about 270' from me, just on the edge of the rough. I have only the vaguest idea where the basket is, since you can't see it from the tee and it's way down a curving fairway. I jog out, look at the basket, jog back to my lie and take an 11x Champion Teebird and rip it down the alley RHBH. It falls to the left heading down the hill, and we all hear chains. The spotter comes running up the hill yelling that it stuck. 350' putt for the deuce. According to the locals, one of the only twos ever taken on that hole. (and the closest I've ever come to an ace in a tournament).

 

[t i m]

Second best for me is another tourney eagle -- "Tony's Valley" is hole 14 on The Whippin' Post at Paw Paw, WV. It's a 675 foot shot where you teeoff down into a valley, and the basket is at the top of the next hill. Three round tourney at the West Virginia Open last year, and we played The Whippin' Post twice.

First time through, I put out a 400' drive down into the valley, and my upshot was a flicked spike-hyzer firebird that hit the side of the basket solid and rolled away 40' away. My putt hit the basket and rolled 30' the other direction. I missed that putt and took a 5 on the hole, after hitting basket for the near-eagle.

Third round of the tournament, we're back to the same hole. I put out the same 400' drive, landing within feet of where I landed the first time. Took a different firebird (slightly more overstable), spike-hyzered the flick, and this time it hit chains and stuck for the eagle-2. It's at PawPaw, and the spectator gallery up at the house started cheering. My girlfriend was reading by the pond, and she saw the shot -- her first time ever to see disc golf played was that weekend... so she got to see a 275' eagle. I've had a couple of aces longer than that on courses, but they're not as rare as eagles, in my experience.

I've never hit an ace in a tourney, but I've hit two tourney eagles on true par-four holes of over 620'... that one was the most memorable.

 

[elevated plastic]

320-340 i forget, ace #12 Truckee

 

[Hamilton]

"Hole 9: (620 ft) The longest hole on the course requires a long straight drive (300+) to have a shot of getting close in 2. The fairway dogwoods left with the basket down a hill and tucked slightly to the left. (Par 4)"

WTF Mate? did they mean "doglegs" left?

 

[optidiscic]

Hole #9 at Tinicum PA. Hit a tree early was pissed off then threw an S-curve that somehow weaved into the basket blindly from around 180 feet. I would not say it was all skill, plenty of luck involved but damn I screamed like a Sasquatch in heat. I actually had a witness to boot. Sasquatch has no ace yet though!

 

[dangitboy]

I've only had 11 aces in 8 years lol. The longest one was definately hole #18 at USF. The sign says like 390, but I think it was more like 360. I threw a roc for some reason don't know why, I had always thrown a driver every other time. It set up anhyzer for a RHBH so I just crushed it over high and the massive tailwind just carried it forever. Right when I thought it was gonna hit short, the wind straightened it out and BLAM!

Very very sweet ace.

 

[WillA]

My first ace was on a 180 foot downhill hole where you had to hyzer it out to the right and have it dive back at the basket. I throw that shot on that hole every time. If you don't hit the basket you hit the ground near the basket at a steep angle. On this hole an ace is not a bad shot gone good. And I am sure there are a lot of holes where that is true.

 

[bazkitcase5]

How much challenge is there in a hole with a backstop closer than 30' to the basket?

thats a course design issue - its not the player's fault if they happen to ace a hole that had a backstop - all the player can do is throw each shot with the best of their ability and if that means the hole is just asking to be aced, and they go for it and do so, then its a great shot that got a little lucky - certainly not a bad shot gone good...

and I don't necessarily mean a literal backstop - there can be baskets that sit on a hill and if the shot is coming toward the upward slope of the hill and barely misses the basket, then it will not go 30' past the basket

picture an uphill shot where the hill continues on past the basket - if you run at it and barely miss, you will stay within 20'

 

[ERicJ]

thats a course design issue - its not the player's fault if they happen to ace a hole that had a backstop - all the player can do is throw each shot with the best of their ability and if that means the hole is just asking to be aced, and they go for it and do so, then its a great shot that got a little lucky - certainly not a bad shot gone good...

Agreed. But those holes are the exception rather than the norm (at least in my experience).

From a scorecard perspective generally taking the risk (best score 3) of an ace run is not worth the reward (score 1, saving two strokes), vs. playing for a parked tee shot and probable score of 2.

ERic

 

[garublador]

Just throw a spike hyzer, the ground is your backstop.

 

[ERicJ]

Just throw a spike hyzer, the ground is your backstop.

If you've got a nice big open hole that's not too far... that's an option.

But a spike hyzer would also seem to decrease the relevant opening size of the basket because of the angle of approach.

ERic

 

[crouchingwombat]

I've never gotten an ace... one day... but I have driven right into a tree off of the pad and had to "re-drive" from 20 feet out. It went right to the basket and skipped in, I was umm... happy. Too bad it wasn't an ace. Oh, it was about 200' feet give or take a few.

 

[Texconsinite]

If you're playing a 300' hole and throwing hard/high enough off the tee to hit chains and you miss... you're going to blow past by usually at least 30'. For most people that's a 2-putt.

If you throw a tee shot to park it inside the 30' circle you will often take a 2 on the hole.

Given the statistically infrequency of aces the second scenario is a better tee shot in terms of overall score.

ERic

Well, that assumes a perfectly flat shot heading straight from you to the basket. What about a hyzer flip or s-curve shot that low speed fades downward into the basket from above and to the side. My one ace, and the other times I've come close, thats how its been for me, and the ones that missed usually fade a little too soon or late. They tend to land pretty close to the basket and stay, due to the downward angle.

 

[YonderScott]

My longest shot to hit chains has probably been 60-75 feet. I hit metal from 150 that would have been a bird. And I've hit metal twice on the same hole, it's about 300' downhill, back uphill shot. No ace yet for me.

 

[willstradamus]

I've never gotten an ace... .

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