What's the highest score you've ever taken and how did you get it?

[STUDque]

 

 

Let's be honest, we've all got that "one" hole where everything just went wrong. Why don't you tell us about it in glorious shot-by-shot detail?

 

 

Any pick ups or "stopped counting" holes don't count for this. Only scores where you wrote down a real number.

 

 

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[Golfspy_CG2]

Ok. Il be the first sucker

 

Easy one.

 

A 12 on a par 3 at Cannon Ridge (hole 2?) many many years ago.

 

Hooked 5 straight tee shots OB left. Finally the green with my 6th and two putted.

 

It was a tournament round, so i couldnt just pick it up after the 2nd or 3rd one.

 

There have been a few par 5's where ive taken the max “double par” due to a league or local rule, that probably would have exceeded that 12.

 

But the 12 is the highest, I've ever actually recorded on a card.

 

 

 

 

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[PlaidJacket]

Same for me. 12 on a par 5. I don't care to relive all the gory details.

[tommc23]

Highest I've ever written down was an 11 on a par 5. Hit my drive into the trees on the right, kinda my normal miss, tried a punch out hit a tree branch flew back behind me. Hit another punch out this one actually punched out, hit my 3 wood from 300 out went right into the pine trees, punch out from the pines, ended right behind a tree which u went over but ended up short, sand was hard as a rock which is where my shot ended and my bunker shot went over the green, and proceeded to 3 putt.

 

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[MDGolfHacker]

13.. How'd I do that you say? Simple, I missed a short putt for a 12 😂🤣😂 Par 5. Was hooking or pushing drives off the tee. I even went down to an iron off the tee and that didn't help. Shanked my way up to the green. Even simple chips were no where to be seen. It might of been my round killer that day... 😂🤣😂

 

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[Kenny B]

Seems like it's easy to make a big number on a par 5.  I don't recall anything worse than an 9 on a par 5.  However, last year I did make an 11 on a 135 yard par 3 without going OB or in water.  

 

Tee shot into the fairway of the previous hole (yes, it was a shank!); 2nd into the bunker on the previous hole; 3rd and 4th from the same bunker; 5th from a severe downslope trying to get over the greenside bunker of the hole I'm playing; 6th and 7th from the greenside bunker; 8th chip from behind the green; three-putt. I might have been able to save a few shots, but I was laughing too hard after the 4th shot.

[bullldog]

complimentary 10. I'm not playing tournaments and leagues stop @ equity score cap. So time to pick up & keep games moving

[Golfspy_CG2]

Highest I've ever written down was an 11 on a par 5. Hit my drive into the trees on the right, kinda my normal miss, tried a punch out hit a tree branch flew back behind me. Hit another punch out this one actually punched out, hit my 3 wood from 300 out went right into the pine trees, punch out from the pines, ended right behind a tree which u went over but ended up short, sand was hard as a rock which is where my shot ended and my bunker shot went over the green, and proceeded to 3 putt.

 

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I know a few guys that have a hole just like that and as we leave the green, they usually say, “Put me down for a 7.”

 

 

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[Berg Ryman]

So, I'm sure my score isn't going to be the highest here, because I've never gone above double digits, but this is the story of my most memorable 9.

 

Thendara Golf Club, I'm 14 at my first ever Sectional Golf qualifier. Mind you, Thendara is near the Adirondack Mountains and we were playing in early May, so yep, snow in the early morning failing, switching to a chilly rain.  I'm a freshman who got asked to go because they other guys were playing spring sports and our coach thought the experience would be good for me.

 

So, we start going off the 5th hole in the shotgun. I make two bogeys and a par as we go to the 8th. Now, I should note that the original 9, aka the front, was designed by Donald Ross... so you know the greens are wonky at best and at tournament speeds... woof.

 

The scene of the crime, 8th hole. Par 4, 390ish yards. I hit driver right, chunk an iron from a buried lie to 85 yards. This is perfect sand wedge distance. I hit the shot, it goes  behind the pin so on in 3 putting to save par. This green though was dumb and the pin placement was even more so. The pin was cut between two humps, almost like a minigolf hole, however, if you missed between the humps it created a trough like effect.

 

So, first putt to save par, never gets over hump 1. Second putt, thinking I need to kill it, goes over hump 1 and hump 2. Putt three, doesn't get up hump 2. Putt four, and now I'm about ready to cry... gets on top of hump 2 and slides along the ridge line leaving me 5 feet down the trough for an 8. 5th putt... now I'm laughing, lips out. 6th putt tap in 9. 

 

Also because misery loves company, I had another putting meltdown in the round. We played a green so waterlogged that it was if you hit the green you take your two putts and make a score unless you wanted to putt it. I did want to putt because I chipped to 4 feet. I four putted for a 6.

 

Shot a 98 that day with a 9 on a par 4 and a 6 on a par 3... not that bad in all reality.

[STUDque]

Nice! Already got a few nibbles. I remembered the score but was trying to remember how I got it. Here's mine:

 

The 17 on 17 at Breton Bay

 

Background: In my first (and only so far) amateur tournament, I was in the next to last group for my flight going into the final round. I battled through a crappy swing all round to maintain position. On 16, I got up and down for double bogey by blasting out of the mud and getting my clothes dirty.

 

Then I stepped onto 17 tee. It's a longish par 4 way downhill to the green. No hazards, only green side bunkers, and woods surrounding like a stadium.

 

Shot 1) Tee ball into/next to the woods right

2) Drop provisional

3) Provisional into/next to the woods right

Saw the first ball but it was deep so I played the second (will come back to this)

4) Tried to punch around a tree and SMACK right into the V of the tree and stuck

Called a rules official out to figure out what to do

5) Drop at nearest point of relief

6) Punch into the leaves of the same tree and drops straight down

7) Punch directly left across the fairway into the other rough

8) Chunk into fairway

9) Bomb over green and trees behind green

10) Chip into said trees, drops to the base

11) Chunk Chip

12) Chip on

13) Putt

14) Putt

15) Putt

 

 

But wait, you say that's only 15 shots? On my way off the green with my tail between my legs, the rules official stopped me.

 

Her: Wait, did you find that first ball?

Me: Yeah but I had no shot from there

Her: Doesn't matter, you have to play it if you find it

Me: So what now?

Her: That's a two stroke penalty for playing the wrong ball

Me: F* it, 17 it is!

 

 

 

I follow up that masterpiece with a 9 on 18. Needless to say, I didn't win my flight.

 

 

 

 

 

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[GolfJunkie302]

This actually happened. In a tournament.

 

530 yard, slight dogleg right par 5. Lateral all along the left side. I'm thinking no worse than par. Smash my drive down the right hand side. Had to lay up with a 7i. Perfect lay up to about 85 yards. That's my ideal full swing 58°. (This is where it gets real.) I block/slice/flop (if that's possible) this short wedge shot into the hazard on the left. I get up there, find it, and decide to play it. (I would later find this to be an awful decision.) At this point, I'm lying 3, hitting 4 from the lateral. Hit 4. Still in the hazard. At this point, I should have just taken the drop, but I didn't. Hit 5, 6, 7. Still not out. Blast number 8 out of the hazard and over the green. Chip on to about 12', casual two putt. I honestly don't know what came over me. Who on earth spends 5 shots in a lateral and doesn't take a drop? Me. It was kind of like an out-of-body experience, something people have in a really traumatic experience, like I was watching myself from above just completely lose it. Ended up taking an 11 to shoot, I think, 85. Very embarrassing, to say the least.

 

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[STUDque]

I'm noticing a common theme:

Decision Making

 

A bad swing will give you a double bogey, and bad decision will give you a double par

 

 

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[Undershooter]

I'm not sure the highest I've ever made in a casual round. In a tournament round it's a 9. Par 5 1st hole at Patrick Farms in the club championship a couple of years back. I hit 1 ball OB and lost the very next tee shot and had to re-tee again(although I was fairly certain the second ended up in the water). Then I put one in play and made a casual 4 more shots to come up with a 9.

I hit 8 or 9 balls OB that day on the way to a career high tournament round of 88. I also closed that round with an 8 on another par 5 lol.

 

The most memorable big number is probably from the Par 5 15th at Lake Caroline in their club championship a few years back. Made a double bogey 7.

Lost my first tee shot in the right rough. Re-teed and did the same exact thing again with the second tee ball.
At this point I had a solid case of the red ass and hit one about 340 down the middle and hit 5 iron in to about 6 feet and made that for my double. One of the best double's I've ever made. 

 

Side note to this, I played again with friends after the round and found both of my original tee balls on 15. Talk about being annoyed.  <_>

[hckymeyer]

Highest for me was a 9 on a par 5.  And I dropped a 20' bomb of a putt to do it.

 

Hit tee ball on to a huge fescue mound island in the middle of a huge waste bunker.  It's my home course but I know that mound is death and eats balls for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  Go look for it and can't find it.  Do the drive of shame back to the tee box and proceed to hit the next 4 balls in a row in the exact same spot!  Luckily my playing partners were on the mound and saw my 2nd one land so I'm laying 3 on the mound in the fescue.  Hack 4th out.  Proceed to absolutely pure my 5th over the green in to the fescue beyond it.  I immediately play a provisional because I try to limit myself to one drive of shame per hole.  So him my 7th in to a bunker.  Hit 8th on the green and dropped a 20' downhill slider for a 9.

 

Worst score though was an 8 on a Par 3.  Again hit tee shot in the fescue.  Swung and didn't hit the ball.  Swing and hit the ball twice.  Hacked it out, a couple chips and couple putts later I have an 8.

 

Both of those happened during our club championship but thankfully not the same round or year.

[poprocksncoke]

Dont remember the details (most likely blocked it out).  Was in a tournament, par 4, hooked one left OB, hooked another left OB and went to hell from there.  Ended up with a 12.

[JAGolfore]

I remember lots of 9's and 10's in junior events when I was too dumb to stop doing the same thing. Over the years we all have those holes and thankfully they are hard to remember. Hopefully none come up in the future but I'm sure they will.

 

 

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[JTexGolfer]

Made a 10 on a medium length par 4 in Club Championship. Hit #1 OB right, reloaded, hit #3 OB right, reloaded, pushed it right AGAIN and was in bounds by literally a centimeter or so. (Provisional was in the middle of the fairway because of course it was) So flustered and now laying five, hit my sixth over the green, chipped up and 3 putted from about 12 feet.  It was just one of those days where I literally couldn't get out of my own way and it was a tourney round so no place to hide. I would have went home and drank beer after about 8 holes that day if it had been a casual round!

 

Of note: The driver from that round became a three piece non-adjustable when I got home that day. 

[STUDque]

Only 3 pieces? Seems like you let that driver off easy

 

 

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[Mr_Theoo]

12 at Lacosta because MBP said i should try to clear a tree on my tee shot

[tony@CIC]

My worst 3 years ago was an 11 and I wasn't on the green yet - playing in men's league night and the guys said just pick it up and they put me down for a 10. I couldn't get out of high rough. It was a tough night - craigslist almost had an add for Ping lefty clubs.

 

This past year, playing in a club tournament on a 145 yd par 3 all over water, my partner got a 14, fortunately it was almost at the end of the round so he didn't have to go back to the clubhouse to reload

 

 

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[robertson153]

It was a 10 on a par 3. First shot ob dropped 2 hit 3 ob dropped 4 hit 5 short of the green skulled 6 over green finally chipped 7 on then a nice 3 putt to finish it off. BTW it was #18 during my clubs invitational tournament. For the record I didn't win my flight

 

 

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[Undershooter]

12 at Lacosta because MBP said i should try to clear a tree on my tee shot

Gotta watch those Canadians man... Sneaky sneaky

[TWar]

I was lucky enough to make a 10 recently on a hole.  Par 4 380yd, narrow FW.  OB right.  Hit Shot 1 & 3 OB.     3rd ball off the tee (5th stroke for anyone counting) finally middle right fairway.  airmailed my approach (probably from the fumes coming from my ears) and the ball rolled underneath the back lip of the horseshoe bunker,  Could only go sideways...got it my 8th on the green but 15' away.  2putted for a smooth "I don't know the name" bogey.

[Rusty1885]

I took a 10 on an “easy” short par 5 only 460ish. Bad decision follow by bad judgment call double down by a Hail Mary and ended up with epic fail. Next thing I know I drained the 11 footer for an even 10. After I picked up the ball I looked back down the fairway and I couldn't even imaging shooting more than a double intentionally on this hole.

 

It's an extremely rare situation for me, but I'm very sure that many here have been in the exact same shoes and had the exact moment I had with myself. While I'm not actively looking for rounds or holes like that but it's a great learning experience when I have a chance to look back “weeks or months” later

[djahubes]

In legitimate tournament environment, 10 on a par 3. Number 5 Park Country Club. 1st in the water, drop, 3rd in the water, drop, 5th in the hazard to the left, drop, 7th on, 3 putts.........start drinking!!

 

 

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[MattF]

I'm not really sure, but I know there's a 10 or 2 in there somewhere and maybe even as high as a 13 but the details have been wiped like a dirty bum.

[Mr_Theoo]

Gotta watch those Canadians man... Sneaky sneaky

Very, if he hadn't done that I might have beaten him lol

[STUDque]

I guess I'm leader in the clubhouse with 17. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

 

There's definitely some factors keeping most of the scores down: people won't keep shooting in a casual round and people playing in tournaments have some decent skill to start with.

 

I had only been playing for like 2 years when I got mine and I clearly thought too much of myself to just take my medicine and get out with a double. That was about 6 years ago now and I've come a long way since then in maturity and ability.

 

 

As has been said, these high hole scores definitely serve as a reminder to keep your cool as they're rarely as a result of bad luck.

 

 

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[GolfJunkie302]

I guess I'm leader in the clubhouse with 17. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

 

There's definitely some factors keeping most of the scores down: people won't keep shooting in a casual round and people playing in tournaments have some decent skill to start with.

 

I had only been playing for like 2 years when I got mine and I clearly thought too much of myself to just take my medicine and get out with a double. That was about 6 years ago now and I've come a long way since then in maturity and ability.

 

 

As has been said, these high hole scores definitely serve as a reminder to keep your cool as they're rarely as a result of bad luck.

 

 

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I guess so. I have a friend who made 14 on a par 4, though. That's pretty close!

 

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[ddryan]

This may require more brainpower and memory than I have currently available...  I seem to remember either a 9 or 10 on a "world tournament of golf" outing in Myrtle beach many years ago- at that cow pasture called "possum trot"  but truth be told, I was there for the beer!!!  There were a significant number of Big-Time sandbaggers - guys in my flight (15 handicap at the time) who were shooting in the high 60's and low 70's - come on- I am currently a 12, been as low as 9, and best round ever was a 76... (and the damn computer questioned me about it when I posted it!!!!  - "this score is outside the posting individual's normal range" or something like that...) 

 

In our friendlies we basically go double par and pickup to keep up pace.  Under equitable stroke I can only record a 7, so at that point it is moot, and my brain goes into "get the hell out of the other players way" and forget what just happened.  So, from that standpoint, the "forget" part seems to be working!!!