re: Best golf shot of your life?

Three holes in one, 6 iron, 7 iron and sand wedge. The first two were in heated money games so the pay-off was, hmmm, MONEY! But the ones that I remember more were in the heat of competition in a tournament. One was needing a birdie on the last hole, par 5, to win the championship flight. My partner was a senior, so we use his drive and ended up about 210 yards from the hole with OB right and trees left. Hit my 2 iron with a little draw and it ends up on the fringe, easy birdie. Next one is with my sister and its another par 5 but this time number 17 and I hit a 3 wood to 6 feet for eagle. We miss it but make birdie, not only win our flight but get bumped up to the next flight because we improved more than 8 shots and win third in that flight.

In the mid 1990's, playing in the New Orleans Open, City Park West Course (Bayou Oaks now), 2nd round.

Hole #4, pulled tee shot left into the trees and was in absolute jail, hard pan lie, so bad, I can't even find a way to chip it back to the fairway. After wrestling with wtf am I going to do with this for about a minute, I look up towards the hole and see about a 6 ft wide opening maybe 40-50 ft off the ground in the branches of the trees. It is right in line with the hole.

I was about 115 yds. Took that old Ping PW and guessed at how far back in my stance to get the right trajectory to get through that opening.

Took a swing, ball came off flush, I look up and it goes right through the opening in the branches. I lose the ball so I look at the green. Ball hits right over the bunker, two hops and bites, stone cold dead, inches from the cup. Tap in birdie.

Probably could have dropped a bucket of balls and never hit that shot again.