Teenage golf star shows off his skills with an incredible trick shot

This is the moment a teenage golfer appears to show off his exceptional skills with an elaborate 15-part trick shot – which ended in a hole-in-one.

Garrett Clark, 18, potted the ball after it ricocheted off 15 perfectly-placed paving slabs – beating the previous record of nine bounces.

The almost too good to be true shot apparently took him two-and-a-half hours to perfect – and he managed to capture it on film after he rigged up his iPhone on a tripod on the putting green in his back yard.

 

This is the moment a teenage golf star showed off his skills with a ridiculously complicated 15-part trick shot – which ended in a hole-in-one. Garrett Clark, 18, potted the ball after it ricocheted off 15 perfectly-placed paving slabs – beating the previous record of nine bounces

The teenager – who only started golfing five years ago – spends more than 20 hours a week on the course and hopes to turn pro after college.

But while he studies he shares his amazing trick shots – including backwards putts and keepy-uppys – on his 48,000 followers on Instagram at @gm–golf.

Garrett, from Kansas City, USA, said: ‘I caught the golfing bug five years ago but the trick shots, I only started that about 18 months ago.

The almost too good to be true shot apparently took him two-and-a-half hours to perfect - and he managed to capture it on film after he rigged up his iPhone on a tripod on the putting green in his back yard

The almost too good to be true shot apparently took him two-and-a-half hours to perfect – and he managed to capture it on film after he rigged up his iPhone on a tripod on the putting green in his back yard

The teenager - who only started golfing five years ago - spends more than 20 hours a week on the course and hopes to turn pro after college

The teenager – who only started golfing five years ago – spends more than 20 hours a week on the course and hopes to turn pro after college

‘Me and my cousin were just messing around juggling balls in the living room and I thought ‘lets see if we can shoot something’. The same day I had got Instagram, so uploaded it there.

‘I’d only seen a four-slab one and I thought ‘that’s pretty cool’ so tried six.

‘It went viral – that was last summer – and I thought ‘that’s pretty sick right there’ so I thought I would try eight and it worked.

‘A team beat it with nine bounces and I was like ‘crap they’ve beaten me’ so I thought I’d do 15 and it worked.

But while he studies he shares his amazing trick shots - including backwards putts and keepy-uppys - on his 48,000 followers on Instagram at @gm--golf.=

But while he studies he shares his amazing trick shots – including backwards putts and keepy-uppys – on his 48,000 followers on Instagram at @gm–golf.=

Garrett, from Kansas City, USA, said: 'I caught the golfing bug five years ago but the trick shots, I only started that about 18 months ago'

Garrett, from Kansas City, USA, said: ‘I caught the golfing bug five years ago but the trick shots, I only started that about 18 months ago’

‘That one was two-and-a-half hours work. I’d been doing it for ages and I asked my friend to come over and set up a camera on the roof.

‘He hadn’t even pressed the button to record when I did it. You can see me look up to the roof and say ‘dude’. I felt a bit bad for him.’

Garret got hooked on golf when he went to a three-par course with his neighbours – and staggeringly got a hole-in-one from 85 yards with a 7 iron in his first ever game.

The teenager is now a +1 handicap and performed his 15-bounce trick shot at home on April 29 on a green he installed years ago with his cousin Micah. 

 



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