The shot you're MOST proud of

Only been playing a short while, started end of July this year, but I think my favorite shot so far was my first ever drive off Top of the World (hole 27) at De Laveaga.

I had been having shoulder pain issues and decided to take a lesson from a pro in Santa Cruz (Jack). My lesson was scheduled for 2pm, so I decided to get there mid morning and do a full round at the course first. Got through 24 holes and then had to jam to go meet him at the park down the street. Spent a great hour+ with Jack, he really helped me a bunch. Changed my form to include an x-step and really got me using my body, instead of just strong arming my throws (which I knew going in was likely why I was having pain issues).

After the lesson, he went back to the course with me so I could finish up the last 3 holes. We get to 27 tee and there are like 7 or 8 guys there taking turns throwing multiple drives. Jack knew a bunch of them and they offered to have us throw before they head down.

So I'm driving using a new technique I just learned an hour ago, while 8 guys (who seemed to all be pretty good) are watching me. Ended up throwing a really nice slightly anhyzer drive, a little higher than I wanted, but also a little more right than I wanted. Ended up right in the middle of the fairway, about 50 foot from the basket! Jack threw after me and ended up like 20 feet from the basket, but I was the second closest shot of all those drives from the big group.

bda

PS. I'm two & half weeks into that new form and my shoulder never hurts after playing disc now. Woohoo!!!!!
 
I played the 2009 KC Worlds. My first 2 rounds were pathetic and I was battling back trying to make the cut to play Saturday. The 4th round I was standing on the tee of hole #2 at Cliff Drive to finish my round. I had a great round going. If you haven't played Cliff Drive that hole can be pretty nasty if you miss right and plays around 330ft. On the tee I told myself to stay aggressive and let it rip. A few seconds later the spotter says in a very soft voice "it's in the basket". I went absolutely crazy and finished the round with a score of 49. It's definitely my most memorable shots that I've thrown.
 
My favorite shot was when I ripped a nice, long drive from a slightly elevated tee. It carried about 400 feet(I was typically only throwing 300 then), and flew right into the front spoke of a bike riding down the path behind the fairway. Dude fell off his bike, looked at the disc, stretched his eyes to see me across the field, then rode off; both angry and impressed.

Or the time I drained a 65 foot putt out at Meeks park, around 830am on an icy, windy, winter morning, right as a guy was walking his dog by the fairway. The dog barked and the guy applauded and congratulated me.
 
Mine is probably my first ace. It's a 364 foot dogleg right. The first 150 feet are down a tight tunnel and the basket is out in a field to the right. I threw a champ tern that I had won the weekend before. I threw it and watched it for as long as I could, turned and walked back towards my bag, said to my buds "that should be pretty good," and then we heard chains! It took me 4 holes after that to calm down. I hit my next ace 11 days later after having none for about 2 years.
 
This private course was open for play for one day, so everyone and their dog showed up, so we were playing in a group of 14 people.

I was having a really hard time with this hole, and I was on my 4th shot. I was about 80ft from the basket, and I threw a Soft Magnet out of the woods, and it came down and banged the chains hard. Everyone was screaming and clapping for me, as I came strutting out of the woods like a damn rooster in the barnyard . I got high fives from everyone, and it was so damn cool. I will never forget that shot.
 
Only been playing a short while, started end of July this year, but I think my favorite shot so far was my first ever drive off Top of the World (hole 27) at De Laveaga.

What a thrill that hole is! I got to visit in '99 during a week off in July, my wife letting me have the rental car for one day. I played from dawn until after dark, and I too parked my first-ever drive on #27...was RHFH in those days, let a Banshee rip and ended up right under the basket.

I retired the Banshee after that day and still have it in my collection, and in fact, just picked it up yesterday to confirm my suspicions that today's DX plastic is nothing like the base plastic I grew up throwing in the '90s...
 
A few stand out, mostly recently. But I like this one best. Not an ace or anything, just saving par, but...

Charlotte Amateur Championships this summer. Final round. Angry Beaver #9, Par 4 (the hole with the "cross-the-ravine" mando). I really shank the drive by not putting enough on an anny Hornet and miss the mando, hitting a tree and going OB left as well. Now I am throwing 3 from the drop zone at the bottom of the stairs. Most people are playing safe hyzer along the fairway and sucking up the bogey, but I have to take a risk. I see a little tiny window WAY up in the tree canopy that might allow me a closer putt. I grab my Discraft Venom and throw this sky spike hyzer almost vertically, hitting that little window just like I wanted it to, which proceeds to miss everything and land about 15 feet above the pin. Probably the best par I've ever saved after being OB initially.
 
This isnt really any specific shot but it was a set of shots.
I have been playing for a little over a year and i decided it was time to get into tournaments. I am starting in the Intermediate division, knowing if i play my best I would win, but I probably wouldnt play my best being an intermediate.

I had had 3 rounds and none of them were any good. The weather was rainy and windy the first day.
Starting my final round with an OB 400 foot shoot that i should have parked. I knew I had to start playing better.
As other players in my division were playing well to start on the easier holes of the course, I wasnt.
When the holes started getting harder, I started getting better. I was parking holes, making all of my putts, even ones from 40ft away. I was 5 under with 3 holes left.
First I made a near 30ft putt. Being my home course, I knew that i usually had trouble with the next hole which was one of the few that i had never birdied. It was hole 19 at mcclelland park in joplin. A 330ish uphill hole with trees blocking the hyzer line.
I threw it and landed right at the edge of the circle. I knew I had to make a push to get a better place and a bigger voucher. I sunk the putt like I had been all day.
Last hole, just a simple spike shot around some trees about 300ft. I had a bad shot not even landing in the circle, much worse than usual. I sunk the putt to finish the tourney.
I bumped up like 8 places in my division and got a 47 dollar voucher.
It was nice :)
 
The shot I'm most proud of turned a bad drive into a deuce on Hole 14 (370') on the temp Canoe Course layout during the 2012 DGLO.

The hole is open to the left, but lined with thick trees and brush all the way down the right side. It goes straight for about 270 ft or so, before curving around the brush/trees on the right about another 100 ft to the pin that is hidden from the tee... basically a late-breaking, dogleg right.

I was teeing off (RHBH) into a fairly stiff but erratically gusty headwind, so I "disced up" to a Pro Boss to counter the wind... which dissipated after my release. :mad: With no wind for most of it's flight, my drive went long and way left, ending up close to pin high, about 250' from the basket. Since it went so far left, what was a headwind was now an iffy crosswind. :\

My 2nd shot was a Glo-Z Buzzz (with a bit of hyzer to fight off the crosswind). Took a nice line toward the basket, getting a bit of lift from the L-R breeze, then just kinda floated down nice'n'slow (so I really had time to anticipate what could be), before finally coming to rest in the basket. Whoops and hollers all around for that field ace! The group waiting on the tee saw our card's reaction and when it clicked that 1) someone had hit and 2) where I was standing, they started whooping it up too. :hfive:
 
Hole 2, Hudson mills Monster, Long tee. Aced with my PA4 last week, straight down the the pipe, between the trees, down into the basket. The only people who saw were my sister's Pomeranian and a random guy driving by.
 
Hole 2, Hudson mills Monster, Long tee. Aced with my PA4 last week, straight down the the pipe, between the trees, down into the basket. The only people who saw were my sister's Pomeranian and a random guy driving by.

That hole demonstrates to me how awesome top touring pros are. I have VHS footage of a late '90s DGLO tourney where all four on the top card during the final 9 park it effortlessly. An Am-1 mortal such as myself deuces it maybe 1/5 times? I mean, they make it look like their Disc has remote control once it flies.
 
Tyler State Park:

Hole 12, Pin B position: When I first started throwing I was only throwing a 10x Teebird, a Roc and an Aviar. I went out one afternoon to try and figure out why I sucked so bad and if I wanted to continue playing this sport anymore. I throw my Teebird straight through the gap on the left and it fades back just past the A position on the left. I have a clear shot at the basket and throw my Teebird again. It starts out on a big sweeping hyzer down the right side of the fairway turing right at the basket. It comes crashing down into the basket for a 2. The only time I've ever eagled that hole. And just as it happened a couple walked around the bend to see the disc come crashing into the chains. I got a congrats on the shot from the couple as I ran up to the basket in my excitement. And I've been playing ever since.
 
My only ace in a tournament. 2 years ago at Vacaville, CA on a temp hole probably 250-260 feet a little uphill. Everyone in my group threw RHBH hyzers around a tree. Road where we teed off from was OB on left side of the fairway. There's a tree left of the basket, so I threw my champ Destroyer anny and it flexed back and straight to the pole and stuck!!! I was dead tired and heat exhausted, and that gave me a serious pick up.
 
i made a joke answer earlier but my real "proudest shot" was just recently. keep in mind im not much of a backhand thrower and am uncomfortable around water

it was at sasquatch 17

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/view_image.php?id=5794&p=90112f0a

grabbed a dragon(which goes just about 210 for me). Backhand drive hangs out over the water for what seems like forever and then just at the end, starts to fade left towards land and lands right under that basket. boom. immediately thought of this thread
 
I was playing poorly at Am World's this year and going into the 4th round at Municipal in Emporia. After 3 holes I was one up, and hanging my head a bit. I walked up to hole 4 which is a short deuce hole and shanked my drive leaving me about 100 feet for a 2, I took second, lined up my shot and banged it in. For the rest of the round I played lights out and shot the first 1000 rated round of my disc golf life.
 
Years ago I hit a Tree on my first drive and it tanked right in the woods. I had an opening but could not see the basket at all.

This was a downhill shot and I probably had another 275ft left to go,so since it was downhill I grabbed my DX Classic Roc. I threw it with just a bit of Anhyzer and I hit the opening perfect as you please. A few seconds later you hear the chains roar. It was the best shot I have ever made. Aces are nice,but man where I was positioned there was no way I should have made this. It was awesome. :D
 
Parting Shot

One of my friends was moving several states away and we all went out for a final round at the course we play weekly. We did match play and after 18, he and I were tied. I wanted to stop and call it a day but he insisted that he keep playing until we had a winner. We pushed a few more holes and I said that we should stop but he insisted. On the next hole, we both drove far down the fairway and had about 120 feet to go. He outdrove me by a few feet and as I picked up my disc I said "We'll be here all night unless someone sinks a 100-footer". I then promptly threw mine into the chains. He was steamed and said "Oh yeah, you're not winning on that shot" and promptly fired his into the side of the basket (metal hit but loss). He just looked at me and said "I hate you". By the bye, neither of us had ever deuced that hole before.
 
Stealing the story from my bag thread.

Took the kids out for a round of 6 tonite, got to try my Pures out. Getting the hang of them still, but they throw very nicely. I tried them off of the tee as well and was usually at most 10-20' behind my DX Eagle I was throwing. My best moment tonite tho was hole 9 at Charlie Vettiner. First throw was one of the better I've had on it (Flying Squirrel) and ended up just over the edge of the hill and then I decided I would try a few discs from the same spot to see how they flew. I already knew I usually use my Buzzz for that 2nd shot. So I threw both the Pures and ended up just to the left of the basket w/both of them. Then I pulled out my daughter's beat Shark I've been bagging lately. I was about 100' out and I sank it! Yes I threw multiple shots from the same spot, but that's what ya do when you are practicing. I was still psyched to do it and my kids thought it was really awesome too.

If you go here and look at the 2nd picture for hole 9, I was just below the lip of that hill by the corner w/the trees. I may suck, but I was really happy getting my first birdie for that hole. Never had better than a par on hole 9 before that throw.

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/media.php?id=1105&mode=media#
 
Well well, I just remembered a shot that fits in here nicely.

We were playing a putters only round on our local training field. We come to the 550 par 3 that nobody ever birdies because we dont throw 500+ with that much precision. My first throw goes approximately 300 feet. There are a few soccer players around the basket. I ask them to watch out and they yell something like "you'll never hit that anyway".

Well, guess what, I did hit it :D Understable putter straigth 250 feet rigth into the chains.

That was the only time somebody of our club had a 2 on that hole, and it was on a putter only round :D
 
I can't think of one that really stands out. However, I've got three that I'm really proud of. All three were in double's rounds at Dolese. All three were upshots from my lie and not my partner's. All three were thrown after my partner shanked their upshot with a heavy chance of bogey or worse. All three were thrown FH with an Ion. All three were the first time I've personally* birdied/parred the hole. All three contributed to winning weekly leagues.

1.) #6 "Avionic Pleasure" (370' dogleg right, heavily protect pin, flat, par 3): The perfect drive for this hole is a >400' RHBH sky anny that glides into the tunnel where the pin sits 50' inside. The lie: my drive was FH as I can't get that distance yet with my BH. My drive was too low and hit the ground too early and came to rest 115' away from the pin but with a direct line to the pin. The shot: FH straight at it with a little loft to land softly but have the chance to make it. Got a little lucky as I glanced off of a small branch in the canopy that redirected the shot straight into the basket.

2.) #10 "The Crush" (460' straight, heavily protected pin, flat, par 3): The lie: 100' out, left of the entrance to the pin 40' inside. The shot: blind**, FH anny that just floated perfectly through the entrance and between two small tree trunks (gap of 2') and lightly hit the chains to come to a rest in the basket. I had to ask my card if it stayed in the basket.***

3.) #14 "The Monster" (700' dogleg left, heavily protected pin, 15' uphill, par 3 :|): The lie: 120' out, short and right. The shot: blind**, FH hyzer left to get to the entrance of the tunnel where the basket sits 40' inside. The disc maintained a perfect "C" just under the canopy to crash the chains. I had to ask my card if it stayed in the basket. The only time I've scored a 3 on this hole.

*All lies that were used for the hole were from my drives.
**Could not see the basket from my lie due to trees blocking my view.
***Earned the nickname "Papa Putts" this round as I did not miss a single putt inside of 60'. Won leagues by 6.
I have a couple of aces but these shots stand out in my mind more because of the likelihood of the feat being repeated.
 

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