Spooky Season
The 12 scariest, most scream-worthy shots in golf
The floorboards creak, lightning strikes, somewhere in the distance a wolf howls. No, this isn't a haunted house, it's just a clubhouse. Golf can be a scary sport. Disaster, damnation and double bogeys lurk around every dogleg, So in honor of the spookiest season of the year (and the scariest sport on earth), gater around the campfire as we count down the most hair-raising shots in golf. If you can tame these monsters, you might just get out alive.
1. Tee shot in front of the foursome that your partner just convinced to let you play through.
2. Bunker shot out of a buried lie in clear view of the clubhouse patio at lunch hour.
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3. Punch-out from the wrong fairway while the group on that hole waits for you to clear.
4. Shot six inches from the cartpath with a new set of irons.
5. First shot of a playoff after drinking at the 19th hole waiting for the other scores to come in.
6. Chip from a downhill lie with the parking lot 15 yards behind the green.
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7. The provisional after you just shanked one dead right into what looks like poison ivy.
8. Approach shot on 18 when you’re pacing for a career round.
9. Opening drive at a bucket-list course on a dream trip that costs more than your kid’s college tuition.
10. Recovery shot from the edge of a swampy water hazard in the Gator Belt.
11. A three-foot tester to win your four-ball match while playing with your father-in-law.
12. Tee shot over a forced carry with no more balls in your bag.