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Hole In One Problem - When not to get one!
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Hi Everyone, Last week while practicing alone at my local course, I managed to get a hole in one. However it was right on dusk and was the third tee shot that I hit on a 156m par 3 hole. It was pitch dark by the time I got to the hole but upon getting there found the third ball wedged between flag and side of hole. I never saw the ball flight (although it felt great off the club) and actually thought I had hit it too hard and over the back of the green. Now I know this doesnt count as a legitimate hole-in-one, but is it still something I can brag about to my mates? and does it mean I've used up a 'Hole-in-One'?
Footnote: A couple of days later while having a hit with a mate,
I almost holed my second shot on the par 4 hole before my
hole-in-one? As my friend commented "Your comp game may be
$%#@, but your practice game is certainly coming along
fine!"
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I was practicing with Rick Kulacz two weeks ago and he said that an hour earlier, while playing holes on his own he had a 2 on the 484m par 5 second hole at Hartfield. What a time to have an albatross.
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"Seen" two amateur HIO's live. One was an 80 year old who worm burned a par 3. When he stood up to take his prize his speach as " I haf been playing ziz game for three yearz and diz is my 3rd hole in one. Golf is easy." Second was another Par 3 with a 27 handicapper hitting a 3 wood. We thought it was off the back of the green (hole being over the rise in the green). We nearly declared his ball lost until one of the fellows started having a heart attack - well he was so excited - finding the ball in the bottom of the cup.
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Playing in a 4 ball ambrose one of our group had a hole in one. It was on a hole where you can't see the bottom of the flag. 3 of us flushed ours and were all within about 15 feet and the 4th hit his left into the trees. When we get to the green there are 3 balls close but no sign of the 4th anywhere in the trees or around the green. I thought 'I'll just have a look in the hole' and sure enough there it was. I had to tell him about 3 times that it was in the hole before he came over to look. I was captain and would it have still counted if I'd said "sorry we better take Fred's shot and go for the 2 because we need to get Fred off the card"? N.B We did actually take the hole in 1.
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wat's the actual ruling regarding amateur status (loss) for accepting a car for a Hole In One???
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My second hole in one was almost exactly like this. 4 ball ambrose and couldn't see the base of the flag. We found the other three balls on the green but couldn't find mine. I was about to give up looking when one of my partners found it in the hole. For some reason the committee did not think it should be counted as it was a team event but they eventually had my name put on the board. Mick
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Was playing with a mate in a comp, 17th par 3 he hits a sweet iron that looks sensational...ball hits the pin on the full and ricochets into a pond next to the green.
Not very happy he reloads and nails it again...this time it
bounces a metre from the hole and roles in for a par
Reminded him it didn't count as a hole in one, just a very
nice up and down
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I'll tell you when not to have a hole in one - when you've got no money and you have to shout the bar with about 60 people rubbing their hands together for a free beer. This happended to me at an invitation day at Wentworth Fallls about 8 years ago on the 5th hole. Despite the 4 stableford points, the rest of the round sucked; I think I had about 30 points. I still have the ball though - mounted on a trophy - a Maxfli HT100. Closest I've come since is about 30cm. By the way, if it's not in a comp, no-one gives a rat's.
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About 10 years ago I'm 1 down heading up 17 against best mate in club champs quarters. Large green and he puts his shot front left about 10m from the pin. I load up and hit a push cut that flies into the scrub near the greenkeeping shed, experience tells me it's not really worth looking for and near impossible to get up and down if found.
I declare the ball lost, and reload, one bounce, two bounces PAR
Another time at the home course we get banked up (three groups on the tee) on the 5th (first par 3) and on oldie takes a swipe with a 3 wood from 160m and holes it. Next group tees off and one of them nails it for a 1 with a 5 iron, then my group with the pressure on and having witnessed two 1's in two groups steps up and only one of us hit the green, but it was 15cm short dead inline with the hole.
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listening to you lot it, one would think i'm the odd one out
never having seen such a "fluke"...
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Don't tell us that you've never seen one...
Beware of cheap imitations - Especially from the US |
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I was in the same boat as you for a long time until last year when I friend of mine decided to come out and play a quick 9 holes with us after he had finished playing in a comp because the roads leading from the course were shut down due to a chemical spill. I hit what I thought was a perfect shot and his looked like it went over the green. When we got to the hole his ball was in the hole and mine, which had never deviated from the pin the whole way had gone over the back.
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i made a 'dirty 3' - but it was very timely.
I was playing matchplay at Indro and hooked one into the crap on
the left of 13. Reloaded and holed out, ended up winning the hole
with Par
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I'm playing with 3 mates at Ryde Parramatta (before the reno's) in the Friday comp about 10 years ago whilst having a "mental health day". We get to the 17th and I flush a 5 iron straight up the hill and it never looks like missing -2 bounces and straight in the hole. Just so happens that my boss at the time was keen golfer and member of Mona Vale. I was made to feel most uncomfortable on the Monday morning when he places the Saturday paper golf results in front of me and asks me if I'm feeling better. Needless to say that I'm no longer in the employ of that organisation - I've played golf with the guy a number of times since and I still remind him, tongue in cheek, that I've had more holes in one than him...
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Another slightly different view on the dirty 3... One of our members( renowned for his bad temper and his tardiness) is running late for the first tee one saturday. His group knew he was on his way , so they have hit down the 194m downhill par 3 in an effort not to lose too much ground. So the late member rushes to the tee, loads up and hits a hook towards the OOB. He reloads and smacks the next one first bounce in the hole. The next group were apporaching the tee and only saw the second shot and hence are busy trying to congratulate him, not knowing of the first shot. When he gets down to the green he finds the first ball is still just in play and proceeds to make 4 with it!!! so that one counted for absolutely nothing.
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yep still a HIO virgin im afraid, not for lack of trying though
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