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May 12, 2011 in Sports with 19 Comments

The Players Championship, now known simply as The Players, starts today in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The tournament is held on the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, home of the famous island green seventeenth hole. And I know I’ve written about this before, but I just can’t pass up the opportunity to post this video of me hitting the island green. It’s one of the very few highlights of my sporting career. Tell me, what’s your greatest sports achievement?

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  • http://www.knoxmccoy.com Knox McCoy

    Tie – Being named All State in baseball my senior year and getting my best friend tossed in a game for something I said, that the ump thought he said. I'm just a really great friend.

  • http://www.chadgibbs.com Chad Gibbs

    Wait, you were All-State? Which state? I need to know how impressed I should be.

  • Harrison

    2001 Auburn Univeristy Intramural Basketball Champion. Routining 18 at Sawgrass that day from 461 yards was pretty awesome too

  • http://www.knoxmccoy.com Knox McCoy

    Not very. Tennessee.

  • steve

    won back to back Indian Pines Invitationals in the mid 80's.

  • http://www.chadgibbs.com Chad Gibbs

    Better than a Dakota I'd think

  • mrimperial

    I used to be ranked 12th in NC for chess.

    Oh, a real sport…

  • http://www.mattphilpottphotography.com philpottm

    As a kid: Walk off grand slam to win the first Little League game of the season when I was 10.

    As a teen: Junior year of high school I threw a complete game one hit shutout in the last game I ever started as a pitcher.

    As an adult: Scoring a run from second base on my softball team. No big deal? The stretch of basepath from third to home plate was run with my pants at my ankles.

  • http://www.chadgibbs.com Chad Gibbs

    I threw out a girl at first base in co-ed intramurals at Auburn. I was playing left field. #cannonarm

  • http://www.mattphilpottphotography.com philpottm

    Cold-blooded!

    Last summer I managed to pull off an unassisted double play from right field. Caught the fly on the run for out one, then kept running, tagging second before the runner could get back to the bag. But this was against another boy, not a sweet, innocent girl.

  • sam

    2point conversion against miss. St and getting mention in chad gibbs article for the first time an african american coach laughed at his own team in an SEC game. And handling the snap against LSU. My first homerun in adult recreational softball was pretty big too. #basehitter

  • JT Hornbuckle

    I was there! She weighed more than you and I put together and she had been wearing us out all game! You left out the fact that you taunted her but running all the way in from left field with your hands in the air…only to realize that wasn't the 3rd out.

  • http://www.chadgibbs.com Chad Gibbs

    It should have counted for two outs!

  • Buzzy

    I made an AAU basketball team in 9th grade in Richmond, Va. That tryout was the peak of my athletic career. It lasted only one week until the coach realized what a mistake he made, or how much of a fluke it was that I played that well during the tryouts.

  • FancyPants

    Senior year of high school, beat a future Panamanian Olympic swimmer in the 200 yd Free in a swim meet against a prep school. Most awesome race of my long, illustrious swimming career.

  • Maury D. Gaston

    I guess hitting the green at Sawgrass like Chad did. Maybe a 44 minute 10k when I was a flat-bellied 125 pound 27-year-old in Orlando. Nothing else, though. Haven't broken 80 yet, can't hit a moving ball, can't catch a moving ball, can't run any longer. Bit I did swim a mile in under 30 minutes while a still-flat-bellied 35-year-old in Dallas. Does helping Auburn win the national championship count?

  • http://www.mattphilpottphotography.com philpottm

    I'm just teasing. Just the distance of that throw shows it was quite the heave you had.

  • http://www.chadgibbs.com Chad Gibbs

    GEOMETRY!!! :)

  • Paul Gore

    Not very many great memories. I was on a tennis team that went to nationals in JC. I guess the "best" (very sad) was going four for four at Banks park on south eleventh street. Little league (American National Bank), all four were over the fence home runs. I was a large 11 year old.