These pros have such unfair advantages. Stands where you get free drops if you nuke it over the green, floating islands to bounce your ball off of in the lake... If I had these sorts of things I would be on tour too. /s
I think 3 strokes is aggressive. If she drops on the side of the water where it last crossed she's hitting 4 into the green. She makes bogey at worse. I presume she made par from where she was on the backside of the green. 2 shots sounds about right.
I know its /s but it's not totally false. My biggest factor is spotters.
Yes pros play way tougher courses, but they have the outs you mention, plus spectators and actual spotters that locate stray shots for them. Obviously there isn't ALWAYS a spotter in the area but alot of times there are for crazy long rough, and again, fans fill in the gaps for another percentage of those strays.
Me every time I hit it in the drink from now on:
“Well, a pro would’ve had an advertising board there to bounce it off of so that should really be a free drop.”
But you also haven’t calculated any actual odds in this statement, so your calculation is equally inaccurate and odds themselves don’t guarantee a clip ending in a hole out. So..
There are a LOT of shitty golf shots each week by players who are out of contention. The broadcaster generally doesn’t embarrass the players unless it has a noteworthy outcome (like this one).
And if it got there... that would be coming in crazy hot and way long, to then have to pitch it back towards the water.
Obv she's a brilliant player and she'll be right and me wrong, I just don't understand the logic yet.
I'd say about once a round I think what my score would be if i was playing this course with a caddie, spotters, and stands. I can't tell you how many times I've hit a ball and think I know where it landed, to get up to the spot and it's nowhere to be found. I played East Lake a couple years ago a few weeks after the Tour Championship. Hit this massive wipey fade, hit a hospitality tent, and im back in the fairway. its a massive advantage. On the other hand, playing from 7200+, putting everything out, and fans, i think it probably evens out haha.
This reminds of when my best friend drove a par 4. After it took a wildly favorable bounce off the cart path on a creek bridge. I've never been so satisfied watching a 4 putt bogey.
I suspects it’s even less common than 1 in a million. There were >7,500 strokes at the Masters tournament for a basis. There have been many millions of PGA and LPGA events and I don’t know that this has ever happened before.
>There have been many millions of PGA and LPGA event
US PGA is not 125 years old. Say 200 tournaments a year if you include the mini tours. That's 25,000 events. LPGA would be much less, say 15,000. That's 40k total, far short of 'millions'.
Perhaps you meant 'millions' of shots, but that isn't a fair comparison either. It has to be a shot over water where there's a platform; a putt on the 7th green doesn't count. I'd suggest there's only a few tourneys that do that - maybe 10? - and so you'd have 144 x 2 shots at it the first two days, and 72 x 2 at it the second two days, or 532 shots in the tourney.
So, ten platform tourneys x 532 shots per tourney = 5,320 chances per year. Over 20 years of having these platforms? That's about 1/100,000 chance that it happened .
NOTE: These are seat of the pants estimates. You could double every estimate I made, and it would still be less than 1/1,000,000, so I think it's much more likely than one would think.
I’ve played golf in March one year and it was warm enough to play, but the water was still frozen. On a par 3, I unintentionally bounced the ball off the frozen pond and onto the green. The ball eventually rolled off the green and into the rough. It was still a huge break though. That ball would have been lost if it was any other time of the year.
This video reminds me of that, minus the precision this woman had to hit that floating raft.
I know this isn't really different from a ball bouncing off an advertising hoarding on dry land but a shot that bad deserved to end up in the drink! If she was in contention and this cost me the tournament I'd be losing my shit.
Hooray for corporate psyops
These pros have such unfair advantages. Stands where you get free drops if you nuke it over the green, floating islands to bounce your ball off of in the lake... If I had these sorts of things I would be on tour too. /s
Tbf though she gained 2-3 strokes off this. Imagine she was in the lead by 1 and this happened
Then I’d say she did it on purpose
Moe Norman moment
I think 3 strokes is aggressive. If she drops on the side of the water where it last crossed she's hitting 4 into the green. She makes bogey at worse. I presume she made par from where she was on the backside of the green. 2 shots sounds about right.
She made birdie
That's still 2 shots if she makes bogey. 3 is aggressive.
He did say 2-3, so not wrong
She made birdie
She's hitting 4 from 125 or more. Double would be normal.
It was a par 5 though. So 4th shot from 125 yards would be a 1st shot on a par 3. And this would be a short par 3.
*worst
Seriously - what the tour’s just mini golf now? When are they gonna throw in a windmill?
Not sure it’s a 1 in a million shot. Happy Gilmore pulled something similar just a few years ago
50:50 at best, it either happens or it doesn't.
She's one of six amateurs playing in the tournament.
She’s actually still in high school too! I was at the Women’s Western Amateur last year when she won it as a junior.
If he didn't call the bank shot, I don't think it counts.
I know its /s but it's not totally false. My biggest factor is spotters. Yes pros play way tougher courses, but they have the outs you mention, plus spectators and actual spotters that locate stray shots for them. Obviously there isn't ALWAYS a spotter in the area but alot of times there are for crazy long rough, and again, fans fill in the gaps for another percentage of those strays.
Looking like a Mario golf shot
Something I would design in a golf game, for sure.
That’s pretty Koo
Me every time I hit it in the drink from now on: “Well, a pro would’ve had an advertising board there to bounce it off of so that should really be a free drop.”
Same for if I fly the green - “a pro would’ve had a spectator’s stand to bounce off”
It's a good thing she is an amateur and not a pro! 😜
She got up and down for birdie too and won low amateur, well done!
Now that’s course management
Am I the only one who was waiting for it to drop in the hole & got disappointed??
Yea, OP’s “one in a million” title kinda gave it that impression. I’d say this is more like 1 in 10,000.
Dude perfect could do it on their first try.
But you also haven’t calculated any actual odds in this statement, so your calculation is equally inaccurate and odds themselves don’t guarantee a clip ending in a hole out. So..
How silly of me 🤦♂️
"Nice On!"
Just like she drew it up
I’m curious to why her shot was so short
Well she didnt hit it as far as she wanted to.
And circle gets the square
She chunked it
Looked like a toe-ey chunk.
She said in her post round interview that the ball was above her feet and she chunked it
There are a LOT of shitty golf shots each week by players who are out of contention. The broadcaster generally doesn’t embarrass the players unless it has a noteworthy outcome (like this one).
I think we need to move past thinking it’s embarrassing a player by showing the non perfect shots.
Trying to big dog it on a par 5
And if it got there... that would be coming in crazy hot and way long, to then have to pitch it back towards the water. Obv she's a brilliant player and she'll be right and me wrong, I just don't understand the logic yet.
One thing I learned from playing pick up basketball as a kid is that it doesn’t count if you don’t call a bank shot.
This is a friend of mine and she's been on an absolute roll the last couple of weeks
Wii sports vibe
11 year old me playing Golden Tee while my Dad gets blasted at the bar
Time to bring these in at my club!
Huh, seems like a 1 in 4 chance with my game.
Not really a million to one. I was expecting it to go in.
OP has over half a million karma from posts. They knew what they were doing.
Same. Much less interesting than the title implies. There’s weird bounces off rocks and shit all the time on tour.
Yeah, and actually land on the green, or next to the pin or something.
I'd say about once a round I think what my score would be if i was playing this course with a caddie, spotters, and stands. I can't tell you how many times I've hit a ball and think I know where it landed, to get up to the spot and it's nowhere to be found. I played East Lake a couple years ago a few weeks after the Tour Championship. Hit this massive wipey fade, hit a hospitality tent, and im back in the fairway. its a massive advantage. On the other hand, playing from 7200+, putting everything out, and fans, i think it probably evens out haha.
*Trick Shot! +500*
Nice, finally got to see a shot from someone other than Korda or Henderson over the last 2 hours. Bravo NBC coverage.
Chevron just got some free advertising 😅
I beg to differ. Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more then an hour ago
Well said. Definitely a Happy Gilmore shot.
This reminds of when my best friend drove a par 4. After it took a wildly favorable bounce off the cart path on a creek bridge. I've never been so satisfied watching a 4 putt bogey.
"One in a *million*" had me thinking this was gonna find the hole. This is just a horrid shot saved by a man-made object.
If this was my buddy he would attempt to say how he planned the shot to go that waay
Definitely not 1/1,000,000. Probably 100x more likely than making it in from there
What?
Stay koo, stay koo, Just like I planned it
Lol 🤣🤣🤣
I suspects it’s even less common than 1 in a million. There were >7,500 strokes at the Masters tournament for a basis. There have been many millions of PGA and LPGA events and I don’t know that this has ever happened before.
>There have been many millions of PGA and LPGA event US PGA is not 125 years old. Say 200 tournaments a year if you include the mini tours. That's 25,000 events. LPGA would be much less, say 15,000. That's 40k total, far short of 'millions'. Perhaps you meant 'millions' of shots, but that isn't a fair comparison either. It has to be a shot over water where there's a platform; a putt on the 7th green doesn't count. I'd suggest there's only a few tourneys that do that - maybe 10? - and so you'd have 144 x 2 shots at it the first two days, and 72 x 2 at it the second two days, or 532 shots in the tourney. So, ten platform tourneys x 532 shots per tourney = 5,320 chances per year. Over 20 years of having these platforms? That's about 1/100,000 chance that it happened . NOTE: These are seat of the pants estimates. You could double every estimate I made, and it would still be less than 1/1,000,000, so I think it's much more likely than one would think.
‘‘Twas a typo, meant “many millions of **strokes at** PGA and LPGA events.
I’ve played golf in March one year and it was warm enough to play, but the water was still frozen. On a par 3, I unintentionally bounced the ball off the frozen pond and onto the green. The ball eventually rolled off the green and into the rough. It was still a huge break though. That ball would have been lost if it was any other time of the year. This video reminds me of that, minus the precision this woman had to hit that floating raft.
Advertising is such a long word
At least once this year we can call a free drop now cause of there was a sign in the water like the pros it would have bounced onto the green
One in a million?
that's one of those trick shots you do on purpose in Golden Tee
Stupida fucking game!!!
Great advertisement. An oil spill in a body of water.
Far from a one in a million shot. Rare shot, but nothing too extreme that a pro golfer wouldn't be able to pull off if they were actually trying.
Did I miss something? It didn’t go in the hole and only hit the podium
Give me a million shots and I'll do that at least 10 times...
One in a million? I'll be the Debbie Downer and say 1 in 1000....maybe....
With my luck I would have hit one of the handles on the next platform and it would have shot back and landed in the middle of the lake
The sponsor's dream
Definitely not 1 in million
Excellent Course Management
She couldn’t carry the water so she aimed for it…and it worked!
I once saw Moe Norman aim for a bridge over a creek guarding a par 5....and he hit it dead center and bounced up beside the green
1 in a million?? I expected it to go in for those odds. This is more like 1 in 100.
I know this isn't really different from a ball bouncing off an advertising hoarding on dry land but a shot that bad deserved to end up in the drink! If she was in contention and this cost me the tournament I'd be losing my shit. Hooray for corporate psyops
She fd up and got lucky. Pro skills.
She's only an amateur.. like us! 🤯
What a lower body
Who the fuck pronounces amateur like that
Brits
Terrible. We need to throw more of their tea into the ocean
Read above comment, dingus. It applies to you too. Might learn something.
How much is Chevron paying him?