Greatest shot that never happened, or maybe it did.

Playing the weekly scramble at Ft. Polk (Johnson), nine holes, three- and four-man scramble yesterday. Start on 13, par 4 dog leg to the right with trees bordering on the right just right of the cart path, maybe 300yds. First player playing from the regular tees, one up, launches his drive to the right into the trees. Well hit but can hear the ball brush a few limbs or leaves as it travels through the 90 percent air. I lose it once it gets to the trees but one of our other players says it was well hit and headed right at the green, cut the corner so speak. Anyway, the rest of us hit and another partner smokes his 30 yards from the green. We look for the first players ball in the trees, no luck. Go to the drive in front of the green and I chip up to about 4 ft above the hole. The person who hit the big drive we used goes to the hole and removes the pin to line up our birdie putt. When he does, there is a ball in the hole and it's the same kind as the one that went into the woods by the first guy on the tee. Callaway three stripper number 3. We are all dumbfounded. Could it be? Maybe got through and hit the cart path and found its way to the green and gone in? With another group on our heels, we decide to go ahead and putt for the birdie and go back and look to see if we can find the ball in the woods. We look for a few minutes and can't find his ball. We make the birdie and go on, but not without talking about what could or maybe happened on our first hole. Since we finished on the hole ahead, we stop and look again to see if we can find his ball in the woods. Find several but none are his. It's a blind tee shot so we couldn't see it nor did anybody else from other holes next by. Nobody was ahead of us, so it wasn't from another group in the scramble. Never played with the guy but he could definitely move it off the tee. He and the guy who drove it 30 yards from the tee where neck and neck off the tee on every hole. Could have been the shot of a lifetime that maybe will never be.