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15th Sep 2014

Video: Irish lads’ deadly back garden golf trickshot looks even deadlier in slow-motion

If you’re going to try this at home, at least warn the neighbours first.

Conor Heneghan

If you’re going to try this at home, at least warn the neighbours first.

The reason we say that is because if your effort at this very difficult to execute trickshot goes as well as it did for Justin Barrett and Jack Donohue recently, then there’s a good chance the next-door neighbour will be around looking for an explanation for a broken window.

With just a couple of golf clubs and the slow-motion camera on an iPhone, Justin and Jack – both from Athlone – combined to pull off a trickshot that we imagine is way harder than it looks and required expert technique and perfect timing to make it work just right.

The quality of the shot (Jack chipped it up and Justin knocked it out of the park) is even better illustrated when slowed down to snail’s pace, although we hope that the lads didn’t have any attachment to that particular ball as we doubt they’ll be finding it in a hurry.

Rory, eat your heart out.

Hat-tip to Justin Barrett for sending this one our way