# Ever have a hole-in-one?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 23, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246 "2003-08-23T23:58:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/1 "2003-08-23T23:58:56Z")
Partly to brag…partly to see if other Dopers have…
I have three. Best was 180 yards, NUKED 6-iron, carried the green, checked up to the left, and rolled in the hole!
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/2 "2003-08-24T00:10:14Z")
My brother, who is a far more avid and frequent golfer than I, hit one a few years ago.
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### Author:  [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/3 "2003-08-24T01:19:15Z")
In a manner of speaking.
The scene is the thirteenth hole at Quantico’s Medal of Honor Course. The tee box is relatively narrow, boxed in by trees, and then opens up to a fairway that goes about 160 and then doglegs slightly to the left.
I tee up and hit a monster drive… off the toe of my club. It heads sideways at about 10,000 MPH, hits one of the trees, bounces backwards at a good clip… rolls on to the twelfth green (the green we had just left) and rolls into the hole.
Surprised the hell out of the guys that were putting.
I’ve never lived it down.
- Rick
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/4 "2003-08-24T01:20:43Z")
Only in Putt-Putt. Drove the green any number of times on Par 3’s but never in the hole. I think I hit the flag once, but the ball bounced to the other end of the green.
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### Author:  [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/5 "2003-08-24T01:24:57Z")
LOL!!! **Bricker,** that is too much! I can only imagine how you would have been razzed in MY usual foursome (six-some, eight-some!)
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/6 "2003-08-24T10:36:42Z")
I had an eagle on a par four. Reduces to same thing, I guess.
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### Author:  [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/7 "2003-08-24T13:09:29Z")
One hole-in-one, aged 17, 5-iron. It was very costly as my dad called up all his friends and told them to get to the golf club as I was buying (this was in England, so though not quite legal at 17, in practice it was not a problem).
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/8 "2003-08-24T14:13:26Z")
I did once, age 15, on a gym class field trip. The foursome behind us had caught up and were playing–a ball zipped within two feet of my head. I turned into She-Hulk, twisted off their (ahem) balls, and hit a hole-in-one on the strength of the anger.
Well. I really did hit the hole-in-one.
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### Author:  [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/9 "2003-08-24T14:17:27Z")
Yep! On [Mini-Putt](http://www.tekzoned.com/games/miniputt/index.html).
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### Author:  [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/10 "2003-08-24T14:39:06Z")
I’ve had one hole-in-one. When I was around 17 (think early Reagan, pre-shooting) I knocked a one iron in on the 13th hole at Sara Bay CC. It’s a long par 3, was playing dead into about a two or three club wind, with a very narrow green. It was like a seeker homing shot. I hit it very low just right of the stick. The low shot and my natural draw made it roll, and roll, then the ball took the natural slope of the terrain left, _BLINK. CLUNK_ Remember, we were into a strong wind. The sound carried very well.
“Yeah! Just like I planned it.”
Heh. It would’ve been a six-foot, scary slider putt – minimum – if it had missed.
Not long after that I double eagled the 17th at the same course with a 2 iron. Same type shot.
Meanwhile, driving greens on short par fours or putting it very close, _sounds of crickets chirping._ Do scramble tournaments count if you drive the green, um, but the other guy makes the putt?
I have a seriously glaring lack of 2s on par fours for a guy who has been playing as long as I have hitting it a long way. I’ve made the practice ‘mulligan’ three times. You know, the shot you hit to placate yourself after the real shot goes horribly and inexplicably awry? GAH! :mad:
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### Author:  [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/11 "2003-08-24T16:43:55Z")
Adouble eagle is REALLY rare. I don’t think I’ve ever been close to one of those. I have a couple of chip-in eagles on short par 4’s.
I’m kinda jealous of several of you. It took me over 20 years to get my first ace.
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### Author:  [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/12 "2003-08-24T17:19:59Z")
In UK a double eagle is called an albatros.
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### Author:  [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/13 "2003-08-24T17:50:16Z")
I damn near aced a par 4 once, at the local crappy public course. Frankly, there’s no way it should be a par 4, as I can drive the green with a good (1 in 10, or so) tee shot, and I am not a big hitter, but still, it would have made a great story.
Six inches. Ouch.
And then, on my birthday about 4 years ago, I was playing and teed up a 5 iron on a short par 3…I hit the pin, dropped it 18 inches from the hole - and THREE putted. You see, they had managed to overturn a tractor on the green about 3 days before, and had resodded where the gas and hydraulic fluid had destroyed the surface, and then decided that that would make a great pin placement for the day. It was like putting on a cobblestone road.
Finally, I think a double eagle is rightly called an albatross in the US, as well. It’s just that nobody does.
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### Author:  [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/14 "2003-08-24T20:11:08Z")
There is a course around here – Ventura CC – with so many short par 4s it’s really not even fair from the back tees into the wind. I’ve played that thing five times to get a real 2 on a par 4. Played it _by myself_ twice in one day (hence pin positions memorized the second time) just for that purpose.
I’ve pulled back one too many eight footer for eagle to think it’s going to be easy. I’ll have to make a strong three wood out of light rough on a 480 yard hole, bouncing it over a trap, or something similar.
I’ll call it an albatross. I’ve come within inches of three others. Once at the U of Florida course _circuits grinding_ – number seven? In about 1984 I blasted a 13 degree up the hill on a string the whole way. A couple turns away, I’d guess. Then in Atlanta (can’t remember the course) once I actually _faded_ a high 2 iron which lipped out. I made the four-footer for eagle. That one made me a few dollars. At Barrington Hall in Macon,
GA I dug a high four wood into the sloppy green of #4 in a really nasty rain storm. Missed the near gimmie there. That cost me a bunch of dollars. When I have an eight iron into a par five, which happens occasionally down the aforementioned winds, looked for a plugged bunker shot.
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### Author:  [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/15 "2003-08-24T20:30:35Z")
No – and I’ve played golf for 40 years. While in high school I was caddying for two people who had holes-in-one – a woman who used a 5-wood on a 110-yard hole. The hole was at the top of a hill, so she missed the thrill of seeing it.
The other case was in an Ohio PGA event and the pro for whom I was caddying hit on in on a 180 yard hole. Since I’d clubbed him, we were both very happy.
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### Author:  [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/16 "2003-08-25T20:09:52Z")
I’m a two-or-three-times-a-summer golfer. I’ve never got an ace, but I did hole a 150-yard second shot once when I was seventeen. Bounced once on the green, hit the pin, and dropped in. Like a stone.
Sounds impressive, right? The sad part was it was a 170-yard par three, and I’d flubbed my tee-shot. At least the fifty-year-old guys my friend and I were paired with said they’d never seen anything like that before.
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/17 "2003-08-26T00:51:26Z")
I have had four holes-in-one.
First two on holidays about 6 weeks apart, Valentines Day (2-iron 220 yds) and Easter (4 iron 190 yds). 1990. The one on Easter was technically a par 4, but it was only a four iron shot to a temporary green.
The 3rd H-n-1 (Sept 7. 1995) was a poor shot, 7-iron from 160 yds that never got more than 30 ft off the ground.
The 4th H-n-1 was on the same hole as the third one but it was a good shot. (Jun 11 1999).
The first H-n-1 was the most costly. On a golf trip to Destin FL, with 31 thirsty golfers at an upscale restaurant. $3-4 per drink.
I have witnessed about 8 other H-n-1’s but have never witnessed an albatross
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/18 "2003-08-26T01:32:17Z")
Yes indeedy. On September 26, 1987, in Virginia Beach, on the 187-foot 16th hole of the Bayville Farms disc golf course. Nothing but net.
What?
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### Author:  [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/19 "2003-08-26T01:37:23Z")
YES!..but it had nothing to do with golf.😃
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### Author:  [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-hole-in-one/197246/20 "2003-08-26T02:34:40Z")
Well since putt-putt counts, I can truthfully say yes. Never tried to golf though.
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