The DUMBEST Golf Shots Ever Recorded

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The DUMBEST Golf Shots Ever Recorded

00:00 Reed hole 13
01:21 Tway
02:58 Kirk
03:39 Ryder Cup
05:01 Secret Hazard
06:20 Twice
07:27 Spieth
08:33 Ten feet
09:35 Roots
10:30 Johnson
11:40 Left-handed
12:35 Tiger Woods
13:53 Mis-cue
15:02 No Control
16:11 Bryson
17:33 Nelly
18:47 Disaster
19:57 Els
21:06 Dumbest

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One player made the most unbelievable mistake on the 72nd hole, while the other thought it made sense to hit his ball twice and keep his mouth shut. These are the absolute dumbest golf shots ever recorded in golf history. Here we have Patrick Reed, golf’s self-proclaimed Captain America, who was paired with Tiger Woods at the 2018 Ryder Cup. The golf national was hostile territory. Europe was dominating and the American dream was slipping away hole by hole. The pressure was suffocating. Every American shot felt like it carried the weight of continental pride. And Reed, never one to shy away from the spotlight, knew this was his moment to deliver something, anything, to stem the European tide. Reed stepped up to the 13th T. A tricky par4 with water creeping along the left side. Champions rise here. The crowd was practically vibrating with anticipation for another American mishap. And then he swung. The moment the ball left the club face, Reed knew that sinking feeling when it goes exactly where you didn’t want it. Tracking left dangerously close to the water. Then it happened. Fairway on the same mother. The outburst explodes from Reed’s mouth so loud that the broadcast microphones pick up every syllable. And yeah, they also lost the match. Sometimes even Captain America needs a bleeping sensor. Now there’s making a mistake and then there’s what Bob Twe did. Third round of the Players Championship 2005 and Twe is right where he wants to be. Seven underpar just four shots off the lead. Cruising toward a weekend charge. TPC Sawrass has been kind to him through 16 holes. Then he reaches the 17th. The Island Green 137 yards of pure terror surrounded by water. But Twee’s a seasoned pro, a former PGA Championship winner. He’s seen this shot a thousand times. The wind is howling at 25 mph, gusting left to right across the green. Tricky, sure, but nothing he can’t handle. He takes his stance, makes what feels like a solid swing, and watches his ball sail long into the water behind the green. Okay, one penalty stroke. No big deal. He walks to the drop zone, confident he can get this back on track. Second shot from the drop zone. Same result. Airmail splash. Now he’s starting to feel it. The pressure creeping in. The crowd murmuring. Third attempt from the drop zone. He tries to dial it back. Land it soft on the front edge. Perfect contact, but the ball hits the front of the green and spins backward into the drink. Four balls in the water and a fifth shot from the drop zone. Same exact thing. Front edge, backspin, water. By the time he finally finds dry land on his six shot, he’s still 40 ft from the hole. Then he three putts. 12. A 9 overpar nightmare on a par three. The highest score ever recorded on the 17th hole. Now here’s Chris Kirk. 20 years on tour teach you when to play safe. But pride pride makes you swing. Anyway, the American Express 2024 and Kirk finds his ball sitting precariously among the rocks near the 17th green. Any sane golfer takes an unplayable lie, drops away from the rocks, and accepts bogey. But Kirk, he sees an opportunity for something special. The shot requires perfect precision. Catch it clean, avoid the stones, pop it out soft, and let it release toward the pin. So, he sets up carefully, opens his wedge face, and makes his swing. The ball pops out and immediately ricochets off one of the rocks just to end in the water hazard. Yeah, the rocks have the last laugh this time. But if you thought it couldn’t get any worse, watch this next one where Rory Mroy was in a greenside bunker on the par 36 at Lolf National. He just tried a routine sandshot. The kind of shot tour pros execute thousands of times in practice. The breadandbut escape that separates weekend hackers from worldclass players. Europe needed every point. And this should have been simple. Get out, maybe get close, and move on. Mroy had faced tougher lies, trickier angles, more pressure-packed moments. This was supposed to be automatic, but golf had other plans. Rory caught the lip perfectly, and the ball ricocheted backward like a boomerang. The physics were flawless, the trajectory predictable, yet somehow completely shocking. Instead of finding safety on the putting surface, it took a wicked bounce and rolled straight into the water hazard that guarded the green, as if magnetically drawn to the worst possible outcome. from bunker to splash zone in one swing. It was absurd. A perfect snapshot of Europe’s shaky start that Friday morning. The crowd’s collective gasp could probably be heard back in Belfast. Mroy and Olsen eventually lost 4 and2, giving the Americans an early lead they desperately needed. But the RDER Cup is all about momentum and Europe bounced back to win comfortably. Still, that clip of Rory’s ball bouncing into the water is a reminder. In golf, even the pros can get humiliated in a single shot. While some golfers worry about water, flag sticks, or even trees, Matt Wallace had to deal with something completely different. Something absolutely no one saw coming. It’s the opening round at Shervo Golf Club in Italy, and Wallace is standing in the fairway on the par412th hole. He’s got a clean look at the green. Perfect yardage. Wind’s not bad. What could go wrong? He takes his stance, makes a smooth swing, and strikes it pure. The ball launches beautifully, tracking straight toward the pin. But then something happens that you’d never see coming in a million rounds. No one sees his ball. Where did it go? Well, his ball rockets into a power line suspended over the fairway. Yes, an actual electrical wire hanging there like some invisible golf course booby trap. The ball deflects left toward a penalty area. And Wallace is probably thinking his round just went to hell. But wait, the rules official approaches with some interesting news. There’s a local rule in effect, model local rule E11, that covers exactly this bizarre scenario. The stroke doesn’t count. No penalty. Wallace gets a complete doover. So, he sets up again. Same spot, same club. This time, the ball flies clean under the power line and lands 5 ft from the hole. He drains the birdie putt and walks off with a smile. This next one goes back nearly 40 years, but here’s why it made the list. The 1985 US Open at Oakland Hills outside Detroit, and TC Chen from Taiwan was on the verge of making history as the first Asian golfer to win one of golf’s biggest prizes. Heading into Sunday’s final round, Chen led by two strokes. By the time he reached the fifth hole, his advantage had grown to four shots over Andy North. Victory was so close he could taste it. Then came the moment that would haunt him forever. Chen’s approach shot found the thick rough short of the green. But the fluffy lie betrayed him. His wedge slid under the ball, barely advancing it. And as he followed through, the club struck the ball again at thigh height. A double hit. Blink and you’ll miss it. But under the rules at the time, that meant a two-stroke penalty. The golf ball must have thought it was getting a friendly tap on the shoulder, only to realize Chen’s wedge was coming back for seconds. In the span of one swing, Chen managed to turn a coronation into a catastrophe. His four-shot lead vanished in a single swing. The shot became known as the Chen Chip, and he became two chip Chen. This next chapter is what happens when golf wants to watch you suffer. Jordan Spith enters the 2024 FedEx Cup playoffs, sitting precariously at 48th in the standings. He needs a strong showing at the FedEx St. Jude championship to advance to the BMW championship and keep his season alive. But SPath’s season has been defined by one maddening problem. Short game struggles, particularly when things get tricky around the greens. So Spith finds his ball in the thick rough just yards from the pin, but with a bunker between him and Salvation. It’s a delicate shot requiring perfect touch. First attempt, he catches it heavy. The ball barely clearing the rough and settling in thicker grass. Still short of the green. Still not where it needs to be. Second attempt from the rough. Another chunky contact. The ball advances, but stays stubbornly in the rough, refusing to find the putting surface. What should have been a simple up and down turns into a grinding battle just to find the green. By weeks end, he finishes T38, dropping to 54th in the standings. Season over. You know how wind changes everything, right? Well, this time the wind made it tough for Joseph Braramlet at the 2024 Shriner’s Children’s Open. Friday morning in Las Vegas, and mother nature is making chaos. Braramlet had opened with a beautiful 64 on Thursday, sitting just three shots off the lead. Now he’s fighting winds that make his pants flap like flags, trying to hold his ground while the desert tries to blow him off the course. He reaches the par4 first hole and hits a solid approach to 10 ft. Perfect distance for birdie. Easy money on a calm day. But this isn’t a calm day. The first putt drifts left in the wind. Miss. He adjusts on the next one, but it lips out. Miss. Now the pressure builds. Another push from close range. Miss. It’s getting absurd. The ball circles the cup and refuses to drop. Miss. Finally, from 2 ft, it falls. Five putts from 10 feet. What should have been a birdie turns into a triple bogey seven. It hurts just to watch. Even the steadiest players have their moments. For Xander Schoffley, Mr. Consistency himself, that moment came at the most unexpected time. Opening round of the 2024 Zozo Championship in Japan. And Sha is cruising. Even Parr through eight holes, playing his typical mistake-free golf. The world number two had led the tour in bogey avoidance the previous season. Then he reaches the ninth hole, a 506-yd par4, and launches his T-shot into the trees on the left. When he finds his ball, he stops dead in his track. It’s wedged against a tree route, literally trapped in a creasse between root and trunk. And that’s when this man thinks he can pull a miracle. The ball moves exactly 1 in. Still trapped, he tries again. Another feudal swipe. The ball stays there. Finally, mercifully, he accepts reality and takes the unplayable lie. Sometimes players make the dumbest mistakes you can imagine. 121 yards out facing one of golf’s most notorious challenges. The Island Green at TPC Sawrass. Water everywhere. Thousands of eyes fixed on him. Dustin Johnson, former world number one major champion. The guy who can absolutely crush it. Steps up. He aims right at the pin, pulls out his wedge, takes his stance, and lets it fly. The shot looks perfect. Dead straight. flawless trajectory. The crowd leans in. This thing is tracking straight for the hole. Then golf shows its twisted sense of humor. The ball flies beautifully through the air, lands on the green, and there you have it. It smacks the flag stick dead center. A full-on collision that sends the ball ricocheting like a pinball. And where does it go? Straight left into the water. Johnson can’t help but smile at the absurdity of it all. This guy hits it exactly where he’s aiming, at the hole. and gets punished for being too accurate. The flag stick, which is supposed to help you see the target, becomes his enemy. From 121 yards out, what should have been a routine birdie chance turned into a double bogey, all because his precision was just a little too good this time coming into this crazy one. So, golf is a right-handed game for Bud Collie. Always has been, always should be. But desperation makes you try things that logic screams against. Last year at the 2024 WM Phoenix Open, Collie found himself in an impossible situation near the water. His ball sits in a spot where a right-handed swing is impossible. The hazard guards one side, forcing him into an awkward stance that offers no hope of solid contact. So, he flips his wedge over, takes a left-handed stance, and prepares to attempt something. He takes the swing, the ball pops up, and goes exactly where physics and common sense said it would. straight into the water hazard he was trying to avoid. The lesson, sometimes the impossible shot is impossible for a very good reason. But hey, at least he gave physics a good laugh that day. Final score, water hazard one, left-handed desperation zero. Now, you want to talk about cruel irony? This is where it starts. Tiger Wood stood in the 15th fairway at Augusta National in the second round of the 2013 Masters. Perfectly positioned for greatness, he was tied for the lead 87 yards from the pin with a wedge in his hands and the tournament at his mercy. What came next was one of Tiger’s purest wedge shots and one of his unluckiest breaks. Perfect distance, perfect line until it slammed into the flag stick and spun back into the water. Inches from brilliance, gone in a heartbeat. That’s where it got messy. Tiger replayed from near his original spot, but later admitted he’d dropped two yards back for a better angle. By rule, he had to be as close as possible. Nobody noticed until a TV viewer called it in. The next day, officials hit him with a two-stroke penalty. His 71 became a 73. A share of the lead became a chase. Four strokes lost on that one hole, the same margin he lost the Masters by. And just like that, Tiger learned that sometimes the crulest opponent isn’t the course, the competition, or even your own swing. It’s a telephone wielding couch critic with eagle eyes and too much time on their hands. From a perfect wedge to a TV detective’s finest hour, Tiger’s Master’s dreams got bounced around more than a pinball. When you’re playing Rory Mroy in matchplay, you need everything to go right. Lucas Herbert was about to learn this lesson the hard way. Round of 16 at Austin Country Club and Herbert is hanging tough with one of the world’s best players. The par five 12th hole should be a scoring opportunity. A chance to steal a hole, maybe grab some momentum. Herbert finds his ball in an awkward spot. It’s nestled right up against the wooden sleeper style bulkhead that borders the green. Not ideal, but not impossible either. He’s got a wedge in his hands and needs to pop it out delicately. The lie is tricky. The ball is sitting snugly against the wooden barrier, requiring perfect technique and a steady hand. One small mistake, and this could go sideways fast. Herbert sets up carefully, opens the face slightly, and takes his swing. But instead of catching the ball cleanly, he catches the heel of his wedge. The ball shoots off at a completely wrong angle, straight into the water hazard. Just like that, a potential birdie hole becomes a disaster. Herbert would eventually lose the match 2 and one despite playing some brilliant golf. But that one moment by the bulkhead, that’s the kind of mistake that haunts you when you’re facing greatness. Next up, we have this defending Mast’s champion. Five shot lead with nine holes to play. Eight holes away from becoming the youngest repeat champion in tournament history. Until he found the 12th hole at Augusta National. Golden Bell, they call it a serene par three surrounded by Aelas, guarded by Ray’s Creek. At 155 yards, it looks almost innocent, but it’s destroyed more master’s dreams than any hole on the course. Instead of the agreed upon draw, Jordan Spe decided to go for the flag with a fade. Just a little aggressive shot to a tight pin position. What could go wrong? Everything. The shot came up short and right, found the front bank, and rolled back into Ray’s creek. Splash. One penalty stroke, but still manageable. From the drop zone about 80 yards out, Spith had a simple wedge to the green, but he chunked it badly. The ball barely made it halfway to the green before finding the water again. Another splash, another penalty, another drop. By the time he finally found the putting surface, Spith was hitting his fifth shot. He two putted for a quadruple bogey 7, watching his M’s defense evaporate in about 10 minutes. Up next, Bryson Dashambo entered the 2020 Memorial Tournament as golf’s newest sensation. Fresh off a victory in Detroit. He was preaching the gospel of bomb and gouge. Hit it as hard and far as possible, then figure out the rest later. The 15th hole at Mirfield Village was about to teach him a harsh lesson about the difference between confidence and arrogance. Standing on the tee of the par 515, Dashambo saw opportunity. At 289 yds to the pin after his drive found the creek on the left side, he grabbed his 3-wood and decided to muscle it over everything. The water, the rough, physics itself. First attempt from the penalty area. Out of bounds, way out of bounds, sailing into someone’s backyard. Did he learn his lesson? Of course not. Second attempt, same result. Another rocket into the great beyond. Third times a charm. Finally, this shot stayed in bounds, though it settled in thick rough about 40 yards from the hole. But it got worse. On his eighth shot, Desambo found his ball up against a fence behind the green. He argued it was still in play. Even asked for a second ruling, but both officials said the same. Out of bounds. 26 painful minutes later, he finally hauled out for a quintable bogey 10. from one over to six over, from safe on the cut line to packing his bags, all because of his own dumb decisions. All right, we move to the next one. Nelly Corda, world number one, the face of women’s golf and a player known for her calm under pressure, suffered a meltdown at the 2024 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship that no one saw coming. Let’s rewind. Corda entered the year riding high, having finally claimed her first major championship. She looked unstoppable, the kind of player who could contend every single week. But heading into Sahali, the cracks were already starting to show. Two missed cuts in her last two starts had raised some eyebrows. Still, this was Nelly Corda. Surely, she’d bounced back on a stage as big as the women’s PGA, right? Not quite. Her first round was shaky, but salvageable, a three overpar 75 that kept her within reach of the cut line. But Friday, Friday was an entirely different story. From the moment she teed off, it was clear something was off. Bogeies piled up like a slowmoving train wreck. Eight in total by the time she reached the clubhouse. And the par 5 11th, a disastrous double bogey sealed her fate. The final scorecard, a jaw-dropping 81, leaving her at 9 over par and miles outside the cutline. Yes, you’ve made it to our top three and we’re about to witness a collapse so epic they still make documentaries about it decades later. Gene Vanld, a relatively unknown Frenchman, stood on the 18th T with a three-shot lead. Instead of playing it safe, Vondda pulled out his driver. Bold move. His T-shot sailed right but somehow avoided the water hazard. He was still in decent shape. Then came decision number two. Rather than laying up, he went for the green with a two iron. The ball clanked off the grandstand, bounced backward, and ended up in nasty rough. His third shot, splash, right into the Barry Burn water hazard. What followed became one of golf’s most surreal images. Van Deerlda taking off his shoes and socks, waiting into the water, and actually considering hitting the ball from there. Nobody couldn’t believe what they were seeing. He eventually took a drop, hit his fifth shot into a bunker, and needed to get up and down just to make a triple bogey seven and force a playoff. Somehow, he sank a six-footer for that triple bogey and made it into a playoff with Paul Lorie and Justin Leonard. Lori eventually won while Van DeVldi became synonymous with sporting collapse. All right, we move to the next one and we’re stepping onto the hallowed grounds of Augusta National in 2016. The Masters is just getting underway and South African star Ernie L’s, nicknamed the big easy for his smooth flowing swing, is about to experience a moment that was anything but easy. If you’ve ever had the yips while putting, you can relate to what happened next, but probably not this bad. El was playing the first hole. After missing the green, he chipped to within 3 ft. A knee knocker, but nothing a four-time major champion can’t handle, right? What happened next was like watching a car crash in slow motion. His first putt missed, then the second, and the third, and the fourth, and the fifth. By the time he finally got the ball in the hole, else had taken six putts from 3 ft away. Yep, six. He walked off with a nine on a par4, and the tournament had barely started. The crowd went silent. The commentators couldn’t find words. Even else looked like he’d seen a ghost. Later, he tried explaining it, saying he literally couldn’t pull the putter back, like his body just froze. He said it felt like having snakes in his head. The yips had claimed another victim, but never so dramatically or painfully as this. And finally, the big number one. The US Open is underway, and Bryson Desambo, you know, the guy who bulked up and started smashing drives, is out to defend his title from the year before. Heading into the final round, Big Bryson wasn’t just in the hunt, he was leading. His scientific approach and protein shake muscles were paying off big time. But sometimes even the most scientific minds can’t account for the chaos theory of golf. As Desambo made the turn to the back nine, something inexplicable happened. The golfer who had mapped every inch of the course with precision instruments suddenly couldn’t find the fairway. The collapse was epic. Eight overpar on the back n alone. But the real disaster struck on the 17th. His T-shot went somewhere no golf ball should ever end up. and his recovery only made things worse. Then came a shank so brutal the commentators were left in stunned silence. Four putts later and he walked off with a quadruple bogey eight. Just like that, in the span of nine holes, he had plummeted from leader to a tie for 26th place. His hopes of back-to-back US Open titles had evaporated in the San Diego Sun. After the round, Dambo tried to explain away the collapse as just a series of bad breaks, suggesting it was simply golf and life and that he’d lacked confidence in his swing. But to the rest of the golf world, it looked like one of the dumbest self-destruct sequences we’d ever seen at a major. Oh, and now that you’re still with us, we have another great golf video for you to watch right in the middle of the screen. Enjoy.