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Since this season is coming to a close...

 

I've been playing since I was 5, seriously since middle school (on and off a bit during my 20s), and I'm currently at 5.1 handicap. I've never been within 2 feet, but I've hit a few flags and rolled some over holes.

 

This season, I've really only been close once. 110 yards to a peninsula green, hit a 50 degree wedge that lands 3 inches right of the hole, then spins back to the front fringe. Almost a dunk :-/

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Word not allowed 7 iron hosel rocket that went left, kicked off the hill, rolled down, slowed up in the fringe and rolled across the hole to inside a foot. Would have been a great ace lol

 

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When I was 14 (20 Years ago) I hit a 7 iron on a 100 yard down hill par 3. Lipped out. sat about 6 inches from the cup. I was so excited because it was my first ever birdie. Many birdies later I wish I'm a little more disappointed it didn't go in.

 

5 or 6 years ago playing a fund raiser scramble. Blind dog leg par 4. I'm told hit it over those trees to cut the corner. I proceed to miss my target line so bad I think it's OB right. Friend says no I think that's pretty good. Get to the green, my buddies dad is the group ahead and he says "here's your ball (2FT). It rolled between my feet while putting and was 2" outside the cup for a hole in 1."

 

Last summer at my home course I played 2 rounds on a Sat. 290 yard par 4. Both times scared the cup. Both 2-3' Eagles. ( I don't think I have even hit the green since then. I have now stopped going for it. Iron - Wedge- good chance at birdie- at worst Par.)

 

Related one of my biggest irrational fears is while playing casual or sneaking out for just a couple holes, hitting a hole in 1 that isn't really a hole in one. ( this can be debated) But making it on a retee of a par 3, playing solo and playing multiple balls, or just playing 2-3 holes) Or making one with no witness.

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Man, been looking for a support group like this for a while LOL

 

Closest this year was a 198 yard par 3, hit a 7 iron that put a divot on the left side of the lip, ball stopped about 6 inches from the cup.

 

Closest I have ever been was a 210 yard par 3, 6 iron that went in on the fly, shattered the cup, flag fell over and ball came back out.

 

Oddly enough past those two shots I havent been inside a foot on a par 3 :D

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Early this summer I went to visit my mom in the villages and went out to play a couple of rounds. The bottom of the pin was hidden behind a bunker. I heard the ball hit the flag but thought it ricocheted off a good distance. I was pleasantly surprised. I was playing by myself so the only witness was the guy walking his dog off of the course

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110yd downhill par 3 which landed about 7ft past. Ball spun back and was heading for the hole but ran out of juice. Never got one yet.

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Never had an ace, closest was 3 inches a few years ago. [Guy's trip to Scottsdale, another group from our area was in Palm Springs and one of the guy's got an ace the same day, so my shot to 3 inches was never mentioned again]. :glare: lol.

 

Recently Played with another single, who is a low handicap, we have played together numerous times over the last 2-3 years. The last time we played he was in no miss mode, every shot went close to where he was aiming, shot 2 under. Me not so good, I did put one to 2 ft on a short par 3 to snag a birdie to his par. Nice to win one hole. We watched the ball land 2 ft directly in front the hole and it ended up 2 ft behind the hole, how it missed the hole I'm not sure. That brief moment of anticipation, is what keeps me coming back.

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142 yrd par 3 to a two tier green, pin in the upper tier about 15 yards deep with a large 3 ft hill. Generally just trying to land anywhere on the green (short=water, left, right and long all protected by deep bunkers. Pull out my 9 and make the best contact I had all day, straight at the pin the whole way. Lands about a yard short and rolls to 6 inches. Of course Im pissed it didn't go in. One of these days...

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I honestly didn’t really get close to one this year.. no hole out eagles either. I only played about 10 rounds though (which is about 50 less than usual) so my sample size wasn’t very good. Rattled a couple flags from a good distance out, but that was it.

 

Closest I came to an ace this year was probably 5’.

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This weekend. 115m to a front pin into a one / two club wind. Drop hole 5m or so.

 

PW high tiny cut and it goes straight in the hole... And then bounces 5m or so in the air! Comes to rest a good 20ft from the pin with a fast downhill putt. At least I made the par...

 

With the wind and the drop to the hole that ball must have just been coming down dead vertically. Not a pitch mark to be seen.

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It was fun while it lasted, but now I have to leave the NAC....

 

Yes, it finally happened. After 23 years in the game, I finally got one.

9-iron for 151 yards, landed 6 feet short and rolled straight in. Good strike, no luck, all skill :rofl:

 

Good luck to all. Don't give up hope!

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This year 6 inches. Nothing else remotely close to that.

 

Closest all time was a lip out where we could see the ball tracking to the hole and take a distinct jog to the left (elevated tee box, only 140-ish yards). That was over a decade ago.

 

I've holed out for eagle a few times in 18 years of playing, but never an ace.

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yeah.... its been a while, but this was at the Par 3 8th hole at Club Filipino de Cebu in Danao, Philippines.

185 yard 5 iron. the tee box can be seen in the upper left hand corner...

 

 

 

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Two weekends ago I was playing with my mom in her group's annual 9-hole mixed event. On the 3rd hole I hit my 160-yard tee shot short and right of the pin, watched it roll left and forward as it's known to do from that part of the green, and stop 3" from going in. Oh well -- at least I won "closest to the hole" (and didn't have to buy drinks or play another 9 holes in the dark to legitimize the HIO).

 

I DID have a double-eagle this summer on our par-5 7th hole. Hit a hybrid in to the green from 220 out. I struck it really well, and put it on the front right of the green where everything rolls left toward the pin. After watching it roll left toward the general area of the pin (I had no idea if it was deep enough or not) for 15' or so, the ball disappeared -- but I was convinced that it had rolled into the valley in the greens where the view of the ball there is always obscured. I also considered that it rolled behind a mound and off the back left of the green. When we got up there and didn't see it anywhere, my buddy insisted, "It's because it's in the hole. I'm telling you." He got out of the cart in the pouring rain, ran up to the hole, and started pointing widely into the cup.

 

THAT was pretty cool -- and I'm told they're much more rare than HIOs.

 

...But HIOs get all the glory. Maybe next year...

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I hit several within a foot this year. 40+ years golfing with no aces. More eagles from the fairway (par 4s and 5s) than I can count, but never off of a tee. Stopped thinking about it, when it happens it happens.

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Hole 3. Kirksville Country Club. Bang on 150 yards with tee placements that day. Smooth 8 iron in. No ace but an easy bird!

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Hole 3. Kirksville Country Club. Bang on 150 yards with tee placements that day. Smooth 8 iron in. No ace but an easy bird!

 

nice looking course, I'll be in the Kansas City after the holidays, perhaps we can trade some 18s in the spring...

 

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