View Poll Results: Had a hole in 1?

jump15vc · 11-01-2006, 11:22 PM

I've got 2, both this year. The first one was from 164yd with an 8i. The other was from 147yd with a pitching wedge, which was sweet because I slam dunked it. The first one landed about 3ft past and spun back

Police · 11-04-2006, 05:13 PM

I have had an annoying tap in about 2 months ago at walsall golf clubs par 3 13th its 165 yards and i hit the perfect 6 iron and it checked up on me just before the hole

Fore! · 11-05-2006, 05:34 AM

unlucky

elizzy.jones · 11-10-2006, 01:29 PM

I have been lucky enough to have 3 hole-in-ones. Only one of them was a good shot though, the other two were just lucky. My first hole-in-one was actually in the US Junior qualifier so that was pretty exciting, an 8 iron from 145 yards, I hit it thin but it worked out. My last one was on a short downhill par 3, playing about 130 yards, i hit pitching wedge exactly how I wanted to and it hit and spun to the left and went in. It's pretty exciting, hoping I'll get another one soon!

**DennisM** · 11-13-2006, 10:03 AM

I've had 4 aces, but none in the past 35 years! Two were on the 175 yard 7th hole where I grew up. One was on the 110 yard hole at a state park course, but one was really sort of special.

One ace was on the first hole at the country club in Louisville where I grew up. It's a 360 yard par 4, but the tee was way forward because of turf maintenance... played about 320 that day. It was also the end of summer, the grass a bit burned out and somewhat downhill the last 50 yards to the green. In other words, while I was younger, I wasn't Tiger, OK?

I hit a good drive with a tail hook and it rolled about the last 75 yards onto the green and into the cup just in time for the group in front of us to see it go in as they were driving away after finishing the hole. I couldn't actually see it from the tee, but one of the group in front came back to yell and tell me it went in.

I've also had a double eagle, or albatross, on the par 5 second hole at Caymanas Golf Club near Kingston, Jamaica.

elizzy.jones · 11-13-2006, 07:50 PM

A hole in one on a par4 is awesome! Wow. Ive never had an albatross but yesterday I did hole out my second shot from 75 yards on a par four and it was pretty exciting!

CoreyNJ827 · 11-13-2006, 08:30 PM

i had like a 6ft and i missed it and had a tap in par, closest i ever had

Fore! · 11-16-2006, 03:25 PM

nice one dennis, sounds like you were quite some player

blue3715 · 11-16-2006, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by CoreyNJ827

i had like a 6ft and i missed it and had a tap in par, closest i ever had

You've never put it closer than 6 ft on a par 3? Tap in par from a 6ft birdie try? It'll come.

**DennisM** · 11-16-2006, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Fore!

nice on dennis, sounds like you were quite some player

Well, when I was a teenager, I was sort of considered a prodigy, but my problem is that I kept growing. I'm now 6'7" tall and have the usual balance problems that are inherant of most tall people's golf swings. As much as I'd like to take credit for some otherworldly plan to have made the ace on the par 4, it just wasn't so and only took most of the luck God probably intended for me in my life. I mean, it's not like I've come close to winning the state lottery or anything like that.

The albatross bears some explanation too... The second hole at Caymanas is a par 5 dogleg left with the tee about 200 feet above the fairway, so an average drive has more hang time than normal. When you can hit it around 250 with a slight hook into the hillside on the left side of the fairway, it will roll quite a bit and drop off to the right side leaving you the room to lift not much more than 5-6 iron over the trees to the green. It's a blind shot, but everyone pretty much knows how much they can bite off, so most people try it. In other words, it's one of those par 5's that requires position, not so much length.

If memory serves me, and at my age, my memory doesn't show up for days at a time, much less serve me well, I hit 7 iron that day. Usually we would have one member of the group watch around the corner in case your ball took a funny hop over or stayed in the trees, but when I saw my buddy Ian jumping up and down, my first impression was that I'd left it close. The wind was at my back and his screaming was unheard against the wind. By the time I got close enough to hear him, he was apoplectic that I wasn't also jumping up and down.

That deuce was the beginning of what turned out to be a 66, including a 3 putt bogey from 15 feet on the last hole. (Strange how we always remember those bogeys) It was the amatuer course record for about 25 years.

What was funny was, I won both the low net, (60 with my 6 handicapp at the time), or the low gross, (66), so they gave me my choice since we had sort of an unwritten rule that in any given tournament, you couldn't win both. There would have been different winners on either end depending what I picked, so I flipped a coin and it came up with low net.

Strangest of all, and it only occurred to me as I wrote this, I currently have the same putter in my bag after it resting in the closet since 1975 until I started using it again about 3 months ago.

Just to prove that yesterday on the course means absolutely NOTHING, I went out the next day on the same golf course, with the same clubs, same shoes, same balls, (yes, I did change clothes), and shot 82.