View Poll Results: Had a hole in 1?

YorkshireHacker · 10-30-2006, 10:50 AM

Along the lines of "the more I practice, the luckier I get" comment. I was just wondering.....

I have got as close as within a yard but never better than that.

Fore! · 10-30-2006, 02:22 PM

i got it about 1.5 yards from the pin.

Dscofever · 10-31-2006, 01:22 AM

6 and 9 inches...the funny part is, it's at the same course

and same hole.

11th hole at Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego. 110 yard hole.

OzGolfer · 11-01-2006, 04:45 AM

I was lucky to have a hole in one 4 months after taking up golf.

I started playing in February 1999 and got my hole in one on the 23rd May 1999. It was 160 metre down hill par 3 at Yarra Bend Golf Course here in Melbourne, hit a 5 iron landed next to the hole and spun sideways into the hole, the group ahead were leaving the green as I hit, so I had an audience.

Didn't realise it how special that shot was back then, since then I haven't come within 3 metres of another one.

jolt-tsp · 11-01-2006, 01:34 PM

My Grandpa finally aced one last year after playing for nearly 50 years.

I had one with four inches and several within a yard. Never so much as grazed the pin though

Fore! · 11-01-2006, 02:48 PM

why are you all better than me?

blue3715 · 11-01-2006, 03:01 PM

I had one on a par 3, 155 with a 7 iron. Green was hard as a rock and the ball bounced nicely and struck the pin and fell right in. this was about 4 years ago.
2 years ago I had 235 on a par 5 and hit a 3 wood to 6 inches. Almost a double eagle.
And last month, playing the FINAL round of golf with my 15 year old irons, I hit a 6 iron on a 150yd (uphill) par 3 to 4 inches.
I can just feel it coming.

blue3715 · 11-01-2006, 03:02 PM

I got a quick funny story.

My brother had his first hole-in-1 about 2 years ago, just one year into playing golf. On the next tee (after he hit off) I asked him where the hole-in-1 ball was.. as he obviously would keep it. He pointed down the fairway.. he just teed it up and played it! I said "you idiot!". ha ha.

one-planer · 11-01-2006, 04:11 PM

Had one - it was a 2nd hole 140yd Par 3 with trees guarding the right side of the green. I hit a PW with a nice wind behind. The ball went high, a bit to the right, clipped the branches on the way down, dropped onto the front of the green and trickled forward into the hole. I took a bowell to those who were cheering me on the next hole tee and went and collected my ball

Wasn't as excited as I always envisioned I'd be though. Lifted my arms in triumph, took my bowell, collected it and just carried on. Quite anti-climatic actually. Kept the ball though - it sits pride of place on my desk

Golfbum · 11-01-2006, 05:02 PM

I have had 3 Aces. 147 with a 7 iron,175 with a 5 iron & 173 yards with a 7.
Two never left the flagstick from the time the ball left the clubface.
The 175 yard Ace came on a day that was windy. 5 iron, into the wind. Hit the green and the ball took the slope down to the hole and fell in.
Funny thing was the next day I had a birdie on that hole. Severely sloped green and I sank a 15 foot putt from above the hole.

On the 173 yard hole, two days after I aced it the pin was still in the same spot. Playing with my neighbour that day and was describing my hole in one there. Stepped up to the tee, hit a little draw with a 7 iron and damned if the ball did not land, roll up and hit the pin and bounce back 6 inches! Close but no cigar