Monday, December 15, 2008

Best shots of 2008

espn.com's Jason Sobel's take on the best golf shots of this past season. Best shot of the year? Tiger's 12' putt on the 72nd hole at the US Open for birdie that got him into a playoff with Rocco Mediate. Third best shot of the year? Tiger's run at the same major during the third round where he picked up five strokes, and got back into contention, on holes #13 (70' putt for eagle), #17 (chip in for birdie), and #18 (30'putt for eagle). Impressive and memorable. Go here for the write up by Sobel.

Btw, do you have five memorable shots from the past year? Off the top of my head, I can think of one for me - the hole-in-one on #9 during a Saturday morning Lakeview golf shamble. I can think of two memorable shots by Jim Bateman - daggers to the heart - on a Thursday morning in August that knocked Richard Swayze and me out of the Senior League playoffs. And I can remember three terrible lag putts of mine the following week that lead to bogeys, a loss to Wilma and Diane in our match play event, and on top of that, a drop from the top spot in both the team and individual standings. Oh boy. Oh - this is supposed to be best shots of 2008. Got any?