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(AP) -- Fifty years later, it remains the most impressive bunker shot in the history of golf, mainly because of the location.
The moon.
Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and his crew brought back about 90 pounds of moon rocks on Feb. 6, 1971, 50 years ago today.
Left behind were two golf balls that Shepard, who later described the moon's surface as "one big sand trap," hit with a makeshift 6-iron to become a footnote in history.
Francis Ouimet put golf on the front page of American newspapers by winning the 1913 U.S. Open. Gene Sarazen put the Masters on the map by holing a 235-yard shot for an albatross in the final round of his 1935 victory.
Shepard outdid them all. He put golf in outer space.
"Miles and miles and miles," Shepard said about the shot's distance in a light moment that was broadcast in color to a captive television audience watching from nearly 240,000 miles away.
Actually, the shot for years has been estimated at 200 yards, remarkable considering how much the bulk of his spacesuit restricted Shepard's movement.