Would be fun to see a tournament of these. First robot to not hit a hole-in-one on any hole gets disqualified, until eventually only one remains.
I love the first comment:
“That robot has a great career ahead of him, until we find out he cheated on his wife”
LOL
Can’t view vid, but I’d be astounded if any robot could reliably get holes-in-1. Just too many variables. Even the shortest par 3 is going to be at least 100 yds. Wind can vary second to second throughout that length. Humidity and temperature will have an effect. Moreover, unless it jars the shot, some portion will need to be bounce/roll on the greens, which brings in to play the firmness/grass length/etc.
Heck, even 100% of perfectly struck putts over a certain length won’t drop, just due to the variabilities of the natural surface.
Getting a shot (>50 yds) within a short distance of the cup is skill. Holing it is luck.
^ This.
Well, that video is from 2016, and should more accurately be called “Robot golfer hits hole-in-one after 5 tries”
see here
My mom and dad used to talk about watching a pro tournament in the 50s. As they told it, Sam Snead was demonstrating some new kind of putter. My folks watched him attempt a great number of putts before making one. But when they saw a clip on the news that night, whaddya know? It went straight in the hole. 
As a golfer who has witnessed about 20 Holes-in-Ones (including 5 of my own), IMO a hole in one is a combination of skill and luck
Skill that the golfer gave the ball a chance to go in the hole
Luck that it actually went in the hole
Or until someone finds he sent an old email with an offensive joke.
Pfft! They ain’t got shit on Kim Jung Whoever.
The trick is not robo-golfers but cyber-golf balls with GPS, a gyro, mini-thrusters, and drone controllers overhead. Even our POTUS could score then.
Ok, so what is the plural of hole-in-one? I say it’s holes-in-one (with or without the hyphens).
That appears correct to me too, although in informal speech if someone were to say “he’s hit two hole in ones” I probably wouldn’t notice or care much.
Same for things like “surgeon generals” instead of the correct “surgeons general.”
Are these hole-in-ones/holes-in-one going in on the fly, cause that’d be way cool.
Didn’t Mao play a round in 18?
Mark Rober has done it with a bowling ball, so it’s only a matter of time before the tech is miniaturized to a golf ball.
Would that be called “performance-enhancing”? We have pitchers now who have rebuilt arms attached in high school, but cant take a vitamin’C tab.
He also got together with Destin and made rocket powered golf club. On one of their early attempts the club broke or got loose from the clamp and ended up a few hundred yards out.
And then there was the robot controlled baseball bat that particularly terrifying since someone had to stand in front of it to pitch.
Wut.