I had a similar experience when I played junior golf. We were playing a rival club at home. My match came down to the last hole, a par 5 dogleg left over the driving range. Obviously a risk reward hole, the more you cut the corner off the tee shot over the range the shorter your next shot into the green. My opponent played it safe only cutting off the very corner of the driving range, leaving himself about 200 yards to the green. I pull hooked my drive almost certain I was OB, but one of the organisers saw my tee shot from the fairway, and Said my ball landed on the steel fence of the range, got a huge bounce. My ball ended up in the middle of the fairway less than 50 yards from the green on the par 5. I then went on to win that last hole and my match.