Players and pundits pick the shots that made even them say ‘wow, that’s impressive!’
HANNAH GREEN: LPGA Tour player
The shot: “Well it’s probably one of Tiger’s putts – probably the one at TPC (Sawgrass) on the 17th in 2001. I don’t remember where I was watching it, I don’t think it was live because I was probably at school. But I remember watching it and I was like, ‘holy crap, wow, that’s when you know you can play’. I thought it was awesome.”
BEN CRANE: Five PGA Tour wins
The shot: “I was playing with Tiger on the Saturday at Bay Hill, probably 2013, when he hit a kind of spinny 3-wood off the 15th tee. It floated into the wind and didn’t even get up the hole far enough to reach the dogleg. He’s got this huge bush in front of him and I couldn’t see how he could make the green from there. Wrong.
He takes a 3-iron into the wind and from around 210 yards, cuts it maybe 30 yards and puts it to within a foot of the hole. On the next hole, a par-5, he hits a 5-iron about the same distance against the wind to within three feet to go birdie-eagle. Pure genius.”
JUSTIN ROSE: 2013 US Open champion
The shot: “Sergio Garcia’s shot into the 18th on day one of the foursomes at Gleneagles in the 2014 Ryder Cup. Playing with Rory they were one-down, but they rescued a half after Sergio hit this 5-wood through a gap in the trees with a high cut to the back left of the green. Rory holed the 25-footer and they won the hole and halved the match. It was a critical, shifting moment.”
RIGHT: Sergio Garcia during the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles. PHOTO: Getty Images.
LEE WESTWOOD: 23 European Tour wins
The shot: “Probably Phil Mickelson’s shot out of the trees on
13 at Augusta in 2010.
In Detroit at that Ryder Cup, Tiger Woods hitting a 3-wood, massive cut into the 2nd, the par-5. He obviously didn’t have a club for it. He was in the fairway, pin was cut front left and he started it 40-yards left of the green and hit a massive high balloon cut with 3-wood. He only had like 230, so he had to take plenty off it and I mean it just come in so soft to about four feet.”
BILLY FOSTER: Lee Westwood’s caddie
The shot: Phil Mickelson on 13 at Augusta – the second best golf shot I’ve ever seen. Seve Ballesteros behind the wall (Crans Sur Sierre, Switzerland), undoubtedly. Incredible. To have the imagination to see it in the first place is beyond all … nobody else would see that shot. I told him to chip it out four times.
Arguably the best shot I have seen, it was Seve at Hazeltine, the 16th that goes around the lake and it goes into like a peninsula green. There used to be a massive oak tree on the right corner off the tee and it got hit by lightning, it knocked it down and its not there anymore but it was a massive Oak tree. He’s hit a 3-wood off the tee and he was probably 30-yards from the tree and it just covered the whole green and it was like 150-160 yards, it was like an 8-iron shot really. And he said watch this and pulled a 3-iron out and he must of hit it 80-yards left at the clubhouse, I mean an 80-yard cut with a 3-iron. Just opened it up and he cut it 80-yards onto that peninsula green and it was just bonkers how good a shot that was. It wasn’t in competition, it was in a practice round.”
WADE ORMSBY: 2017 Hong Kong Open champion
The shot: “Adam Scott holing that putt at The Masters in the playoff for sure.”
ROBERT GARRIGUS: PGA Tour winner
The shot: “I’ve got to go with Tiger Woods and his 3-iron out of a bunker at the PGA Championship, 2003 I think. He somehow
hooked it 220 yards under the wind to within 15ft and made the putt. Probably
one of the best shots you’ll ever see in
your life!”
RIGHT: Adam Scott at the 2013 Masters. PHOTO: Getty Images.
NICK O’HERN: Two PGA Tour of Australasia wins. Open champion
The shot: “Probably the putt Retief Goosen hit in Qatar for eagle to beat me by one. That was back in about 2007 I think. He knocked it back edge in two on the par-5, which was the 72nd hole, about a 50 footer with 10-foot of break, straight down the hill and back of the hole straight in.”

RICKY BARNES: Runner-up, 2009 US Open
The shot: “It has to be Tiger on a par-5 at the 2003 US Open at Olympia Fields. Blocked out by trees with his second shot, he carried his 3-wood about 270 yards, cut it about 55 yards and it rolled up and onto the green. He two-putted for birdie. I was playing with him and Ernie Els and we simply nodded, ‘great shot’. As good as I’ve seen.”

DANNY WILLETT: 2016 Masters Champion
The shot: “There is a really famous one of Tiger’s at the Canadian Open out of the trap that was obviously amazing, I wasn’t there but you still see it televised. It’s funny though isn’t it that some of the best golf shots you will ever see are actually from some of the worst first shots you will ever see. Tiger’s chip-in on 16 (2005 Masters) was amazing, how he’s got there is a miracle. But then to chip in is then a ridiculous miracle. Tiger’s Canadian Open is probably one of the top three golf shots that you ask anybody who plays golf and they will remember Tiger’s 6-iron from like 215 out of the trap.
The 4-iron that he holed at The Open at Hoylake, when it was burnt out as anything, he hit iron everywhere that week, didn’t go in a single bunker, hit it 260 off every tee with a 4-iron and boxed one. In fairness to Tiger, there is going to be a lot of Tiger’s golf shots in the highlight reel.
But then I am going to throw in mine on 16 at Augusta from 176 with an 8-iron, because of the situation. It’s the one you can only remember purely because about what it meant. I’ve hit a lot of good golf shots but in the situation I think with everything going on, when your hands are shaking, it’s always nice to know you can still hit shots like that.”
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