# Where and when was Tiger Woods' 220+ yard shot out of a sand trap? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 25, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-when-was-tiger-woods-220-yard-shot-out-of-a-sand-trap/318634 "2005-08-25T22:01:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-when-was-tiger-woods-220-yard-shot-out-of-a-sand-trap/318634/1 "2005-08-25T22:01:06Z")
Can you tell me the year and event in which Tiger Woods hit that magnificent shot out of a sand trap through the trees to get to the green, which was more than 220 yards away? Much obliged. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-when-was-tiger-woods-220-yard-shot-out-of-a-sand-trap/318634/2 "2005-08-25T23:03:40Z")
This? [Fairway Bunker: Tiger Woods](http://www.golfdigest.com/instruction/index.ssf?/instruction/gd200306tigersequence.html). I think Tiger called it his best iron shot ever. But there’s also the 6-iron he hit over the water-- was that in a European tour event…? ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-when-was-tiger-woods-220-yard-shot-out-of-a-sand-trap/318634/3 "2005-08-25T23:28:08Z")
The 6-iron was at the Canadian Open on the 18th on Sunday, I think in 2000. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-when-was-tiger-woods-220-yard-shot-out-of-a-sand-trap/318634/4 "2005-08-25T23:37:55Z")
For bunker shots anybody remember Seve Ballesteros taking a [3 wood](http://www.attachemag.com/archives/09-04/passions/passions1.htm) for one? > [@](#): > > After hooking his drive into heavy rough, Ballesteros barely advanced the ball and wound up in a bunker at the dogleg. He took out a 3-wood and, from under the trap’s lip and with the wind in his face, launched a mighty 240-yard blast to the edge of the green. Jack Nicklaus, who was looking on as captain of the U.S. side, thought that, considering the situation, it was the greatest golf shot he had ever seen. A chip and a putt later, Ballesteros had halved the hole and the match, and kept Europe’s hopes alive. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-when-was-tiger-woods-220-yard-shot-out-of-a-sand-trap/318634/5 "2005-08-26T00:37:42Z")
> [@borschevsky](#): > > The 6-iron was at the Canadian Open on the 18th on Sunday, I think in 2000. Yep, that was it. I remember seeing him interviewed and he noted that he “missed the green”, although he was just off it to the back, and made birdie on that par 5. It was a miracle shot that no one else would’ve tried…