While many of you have YOUR favorite golf shots out there, I would like to present the GolfNow.com list of Professional Golf Shot candidates. Though your chip shot from the parking lot of your local club, over a Buick, through a chain-link fence, that bounced off your own golf cart which, landed in the hole is amazing; it’s not applicable here.

A Dozen Possible Contenders:

• Gene Sarazen and his Double Eagle at the 1935 Masters
• Robert Gamez eagles 176-yard final hole at Bay Hill over water to win it.
• Tom Watson’s birdie chip at the 1982 U.S. Open on the 17th hole.
• Bob Tway holes a bunker shot on the final hole of the 1986 PGA Championship.
• Larry Mize pitches in from off the green in a playoff to win the 1987 Masters.
• Tiger Woods hits a hole-in-one from 155 yards at TPC Scottsdale with a 9-iron.
• Tiger Woods hits out from 218 yards out of the sand, over water at the 18th hole of the 2000 Canadian Open.
• Constantino Rocca makes a 90-foot putt from off the green to force a playoff at the 1995 British Open.
• Craig Parry sinks a 176-yard eagle on the final hole of the 2004 Doral to win a playoff with Scott Verplank.
• Ben Hogan hits a 1-iron within six feet on the 18th at Merion in 1950. It’s the most famous photo of a swing in golf. Hogan pars the hole and goes on to win in a playoff.
• Arnold Palmer drives the green to 20 feet from the pin from 346 yards at the 1960 U.S. Open. It starts a run of five birdies in six holes.

Or?

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Need an excuse to be on the golf course? Well, if you work for many companies today, you don’t really need one. Many “tech” companies are encouraging their employees to use the term “work” as something you do, not somewhere you go.

According to Michelle Conlin, in an article for BusinessWeek Online, “Tech companies have been going bedouin for several years. At IBM, 40% of the workforce has no official office; at AT&T, a third of managers are untethered. Sun Microsystems Inc. calculates that it’s saved $400 million over six years in real estate costs by allowing nearly half of all employees to work anywhere they want. And this trend seems to have legs. A recent Boston Consulting Group study found that 85% of executives expect a big rise in the number of unleashed workers over the next five years. In fact, at many companies the most innovative new product may be the structure of the workplace itself.”

So, tell your boss you’ll be “at the office” and turn in the scorecard for proof. Set your new “BlackJack” to vibrate and turn in your ball point pens for short pencils. Learn to make conference calls from the bunker and start outlining manufacturing costs for that new warehouse in Malaysia from the ball washer. Substitute tees for ties and buy Ashworth instead of Armani. Get out there-it’s time for work. FORE!

There are several golf blogs and websites out there ranking the greatest golf movies. Movies like Happy Gilmore, Tin Cup, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, Dead Solid Perfect, The Greatest Game Ever Played, A Gentlemen’s Game, and Follow The Sun are all debatable for the top spot (depending on your particular likes and dislikes). However, there is only one Caddyshack. The Baby Ruth, synchronized swimming, Al Czervik, and “Spalding get your foot off the boat!” all make me laugh every time I see those scenes. The movie was inspired by writer and co-star Brian Doyle Murray’s memories working as a caddy at a golf club. His brother Bill Murray and director Harold Ramis also worked as caddies when they were teenagers. Caddyshack II was attempted, but c’mon, you can’t improve on greatness. That would be like Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa II or Welcome Back Kotter: The College Years. Caddyshack is a true gem, but I believe the best golf movie still awaits us?

What can we look forward to next? Well, Clint Eastwood wants to film Michael Murphy’s 1972 classic about his journey to the Old Course and a round of golf with Shivas Irons called “Golf in the Kingdom.” B-O-R-I-N-G! Why doesn’t Clint just film himself as The Outlaw Josey Wales playing nine holes at Las Colinas? He can spout his one liners like “That hole made my round!” or “I reck’on we all died a little on that damn hole.” How about a remake: Two Birdies for Sister Sarah?

Anyway, what we really need to see is a story of courage and devotion to the love of the game. It’s a “coming of age” story about a little girl and her love of golf in a time when golf was only for the elite male society. She’s also a latino music star in Scotland that happens to have this extraordinary talent for golf. The first female professional to beat a Tiger Woods type star of his day, but was “hushed” up by the male dominated press of say… 1893? I’m thinking an all-star cast of James Earl Jones, Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Beyonce, Huey Lewis, and Andy Dick. Who should play the lead? You got it, Jennifer Lopez.