mid-air ball collision- ever happen??
kary@kapalua
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>Totally pointless question here: even rarer than a hole-in-one must be
>a collision in mid-flight between two balls - gotta get all 4
>dimensions the same! - has anyone ever actually seen or heard of this?
>Perhaps at a driving range? Or even better, in "real" play??
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>John Cugini
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I have not seen two balls collide but I have seen a ball and a mallard duck
collide...the duck did not fair very well.
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John Cugini
Matthew Sean Daly
were like mirror-images of each other. His fade hit my draw about
half-way through the flight. We called it a tie.
Also, I seem to remember reading that someone hit two balls at once
with his 5-iron and they connected about 150 yards out. Maybe it was Joe
Kirkwoord...
U16...@uicvm.uic.edu
Yes, it happened to me at the driving range at 22nd and Wolf Rd (
I think it is called US Golf) in Westchester, a suburb of Chicago.
I was using a driver. After hitting the ball, I was watching it in
flight. Another ball, from the left of me, hit my ball about 150 yds out.
Both flight paths were altered significantly with my ball being angled
to the right and downward and the other ball making what looked like a
"hop" upward with a leftward deviation. It really looked funny.
Terry
Seungho Cha
range. But, in field, it's almost impossible, because when one player
hits, the other waits for him. The only case is mishit from adjacent
fairway collides the ball played correctly.
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Sandy Kay
>Totally pointless question here: even rarer than a hole-in-one must be
>a collision in mid-flight between two balls - gotta get all 4
>dimensions the same! - has anyone ever actually seen or heard of this?
>Perhaps at a driving range? Or even better, in "real" play??
>
>John Cugini
>
hit a single power line 3 times in a row that crossed the fairway about
50 yards out from the tee box, and 40-50 feet high. The power line was
probably about an inch in diameter. He hit his first tee shot dead
center and it fell straight down. He followed this by hitting the next 2
drives into the power line. I figure the odds of hitting that line once
must be fairly high, but hitting it 3 times in a row must be ridiculous.
You would probably have a better chance of winning the lottery.
Sandy Kay
S. F. Criscione
>hit a single power line 3 times in a row that crossed the fairway about
>50 yards out from the tee box, and 40-50 feet high. The power line was
>probably about an inch in diameter. He hit his first tee shot dead
>center and it fell straight down. He followed this by hitting the next 2
>drives into the power line.
I have seen this with only one shot but the local course rules say
you have to play it as is. It is the rub of the green. I'm curious
does your course have a different local rule or was this person
playing that other game "mulligolf".
Steven
Mats Holmberg
line MUST be rehit. You have no choice, you can't accept the lucky bounce and
discard an unlucky bounce.
On my old home club Billingen you hit a blind shot (2nd to 11th) that may hit a
power line and the rule above applies, though it is impossible to tell whether it
hit the power line or not...
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Jamie Esliger
every now and then. One of his tricks is to sit in a
chair with a golf club, and two balls on the ground
in front of him. He then hits one ball and quickly
hits the other one. One ball takes off left and curves
right (a right-handers fade), and the other takes off
right and curves left (a right-handers hook).
This way both balls end up curving toward each other.
Chi-Chi says his objective in this trick is to make the balls
collide in mid-air. I think he said it has only happened
2-3 times in his career.
Nick Hocking
cug...@cousins.ncsl.nist.gov (John Cugini) wrote:
>Totally pointless question here: even rarer than a hole-in-one must be
>a collision in mid-flight between two balls - gotta get all 4
>dimensions the same! - has anyone ever actually seen or heard of this?
>Perhaps at a driving range? Or even better, in "real" play??
>
>John Cugini
>
( a club on Australias south eastern coast).
It happened in my foursome with the following group who
were coming down the adjacent fairway. For some reason
it did not seem that noteworthy at the time.
(perhaps because we'd just seen it, made it ordinary)
Cheers, Nick Hocking
David Cane
: Yes...a friend and I had a distance contest with our 7-irons. Well, they
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't mean to criticize, but shouldn't you be having ACCURACY contests
with your seven irons ?
Dean Crane
: >I've never seen 2 balls hit mid-flight on course, but I did see a guy
: Steven
I did this three times at Auburn Muni in WA. The second and third times were
consecutive. Local rules state that you can either rehit or take the shot
where it landed. I rehit each time.
Dean
Sandy Kay
>I have seen this with only one shot but the local course rules say
>you have to play it as is. It is the rub of the green. I'm curious
>does your course have a different local rule or was this person
>playing that other game "mulligolf".
>
>Steven
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This guy wasn't in my group and I only played this course once, so I
don't know the answer to either of those..
Hit 'em straight
Sandy Kay
Mr T K Wilson
I have never seen an in-air collision, but several years ago teeing off winter
tees I managed to top the ball. The result was that the ball went skimming
above the ground, hit the summer tee marker and headed straight back towards
our party. My brother-in-law's father had to take evasive action. Whoops!
TKW
pth...@interl.net
> S. F. Criscione (cris...@aur.alcatel.com) wrote:
> : >I've never seen 2 balls hit mid-flight on course, but I did see a guy
> : >hit a single power line 3 times in a row that crossed the fairway about
> : >50 yards out from the tee box, and 40-50 feet high. The power line was
> : >probably about an inch in diameter. He hit his first tee shot dead
> : >center and it fell straight down. He followed this by hitting the next 2
> : >drives into the power line.
> : >Sandy Kay
>
and with a 64 degree wedge from a certain spot in the yard I hit the power line about 40 percent of the
time.
Ben Potgieter
> Cheers, Nick Hocking
It might be of interest to some that this actually occurred in a fourball
in which I played at the Bluff National Park GC in Durban, RSA. One of
the guys drove off at the 12th hole in a southerly direction and his ball
collided with one driven on the adjacent 15th hole in a northerly direction.
To say that we were surprised at two balls virtually stopping in midair
is an understatement and we contemplated swearing affidavits to
authenticate this, but human nature being what it is, never got around to
it. Needless to say people still look at us in disbelief when the story
is told to them.
Ben Potgieter
John Rankin
cug...@cousins.ncsl.nist.gov (John Cugini) wrote:
>Totally pointless question here: even rarer than a hole-in-one must be
>a collision in mid-flight between two balls - gotta get all 4
>dimensions the same! - has anyone ever actually seen or heard of this?
>Perhaps at a driving range? Or even better, in "real" play??
>
>John Cugini
>
IN MID-AIR.
Here is the situation.
It was a 2 man best ball tourney. We were playing the number one hole, a par
four. Number nine runs parallel in the opposite direction and they are
seperated by a large/deep waste bunker that has mounds around it.
I had hit a short shot to the right and into the bunker. One of my opponents
in our group (normally my partner) hit his ball very long and to the right.
His ended up about 100 yards from both our green and in front of the #9 tee.
I was waiting for the green to clear to hit my shot. As the green cleared, I
prepared to hit. At the same time, some folks got up on #9 tee and my friend
figured that he should hit and get out of their way.
My 5 wood shot was a wild slice and was heading toward the water to the right
of the #1 green. My friend hit a wedge and was heading directly toward the
flag.
THE TWO BALLS HIT IN MID-AIR. His ball dropped down to the left in the rough
and mine was knocked straight down in the rough, NOT IN THE WATER.
We both played from there, but both of our partners scored the better balls.
We asked the pro afterward what the rulling would be.
"In match play, the player away always controlls the hole. I could have asked
him to hit again since he hit out of turn. I didn't want to do that since he
probably would have put it right by the hole."
RULE TO REMEMBER: So, if you ever are playing a match and your opponent hits
out of turn and gets one of those great bounces off of a tree or out of a
bunker or pond. Just tell him how great it was and ask him to do it again.
More odds of this happening than relying on hitting his ball in mid-air.
John
Robert Tremblay
then a hook in rapid succession and the balls always appear to
come close to colliding (to the delight of the audience), and
occasionally do. A friend swears that he saw it happen.
Being that it is Chi Chi, I don't doubt it for a moment. He is
a real magician.
--
Bob Tremblay | 'The secret of shooting low
Ottawa, Ontario | scores is the ability to turn
My ideas are my own | three shots into two'.
Happily retired, thank you. | ... Bobby Jones
Fritz-o-matic
I just saw a tape of Chi-Chi on the replay of the eleven o'clock news.
He put on a golf clinic today at Franklin Park in Boston. Along with
hitting 'em long and straight while sitting in a chair, Chi-Chi hit
two balls in succession! The first one had some draw and the second
had some fade. The second ball caught up to the first and yes they did
collide in mid-air! It was difficult to see on TV but I saw it! I wish
I had seen the news at 11 so I could have taped the rebroadcast. But I
saw it!!!
hit 'em straight and not too often
Fritz
Drive for show, putt for dough and shank for comic relief. Hack on McDuff!