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Once the round is done - buy a bottle of two of whisky and pop them behind the bar for anyone and everyone to have a dram. Simple ?

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Look for a water hazard and do a swan dive into it. Hope I can get a playing partner to take the obligatory picture on the green. I'd have no problem buying drinks for my group and others who are around the 19th.... wouldn't want to conjure any (more) bad golf karma.

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Late 90's, I was in my early 20's. I had just started working entry level for large corporation. In the summer we had a 9 hole league. I was in the last group out and #9 is a par 3. All 20 people from the league were sitting on the terrace right up against the 9th green. I thought the 136 yard 8 iron went right, but it went left. It came down on the left side of the green catching a bunker slope. I finally saw it as it was rolling hard l2r across the green and just dropped into the cup. My group drinking on the patio loses it.

I was numb. It either didn't happen or it's no big deal or just another good shot... just didn't feel excited. My group and the group on the patio are all yelling back and forth and I just gave a few high fives and went back to my cart. Nah... that really didn't happen. Got up to the green and there was my Pinnacle in the cup. Pulled the ball, tended the pin, and felt the pressure of 20 people who make 4 to 6x my salary yelling about free drinks. I remember guessing I had about $50 to my name at this point. Maybe $20 in my wallet and $30 in my account. I went into the bar and they had $5 pitchers. Sweet. I ordered 5 pitchers and tipped $5 on the card. I then said oops and that I needed 2 more pitchers and paid cash for those. They guys took it easy on me mostly. The pitchers went quick and they ribbed me a little about shots of JW Blue, but they knew I was young and new to the workforce.

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The first one, I bought a dozen golf balls for the friend I was playing with ( was not going to buy drinks for a bunch of randles in the muni cafe that I never hang out in )

second one I was playing alone and brought some beers to the greenskeepers

I am not a country clubber and live in tourist land so have minimal experience with the bar crowd at the courses I play

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Mine was the first hole of a charity scramble to support addiction recovery ( 27 years here myself) . It was awesome, obviously no one drinks so I got off cheap that way. I won $500 for the hole-in-one, got the check from the insurance company, donated the money back to the charity, then my wife's company matched our donation to the charity. They got $1000 for me hitting a squirrelly looking 9-iron in the hole on my first swing of the tournament.....

Big believer in karma and $500 wasn't going to change my life, but $1000 sure helped change someone else's........

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my only one so far came on the 3rd hole in a comp at my home club with 106 players in.

i seem to remember smiling a lot more than usual during the round despite otherwise being pretty average that day.

then, after the round, spending about 20 mins reading the T&C’s of my golf insurance to make sure I was 100% confident of their rules! (Up to £150, has to be in a individual comp, had to be on one receipt with the correct date on. And had to send a copy of the scorecard signed by myself, the marker and the club pro. Then when I was happy with that, I bought bottles of Port and whisky to leave on the bar. Only took a few days to get reimbursed for it.

hope it happens again soon!

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Around here the guy that gets the hole in one buys drinks. And I have to believe it's one of the dumbest "traditions" on the face of the earth. If I get a hole in one everyone else in the bar should buy me a drink and then someone should be required to take me home and deposit me on my front porch! The wife will take care of the situation from there.

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I saved the golf ball and got a plaque from Callaway.  Was a Chrome Soft Truvis.  The friend I was playing with doesn't drink, and nor do I, he shook my hand and said congrats.  It happened on hole 15 at my home course, but was the 42nd hole I played that day.  I only went out because my buddy wanted to play, I had already played a tournament round earlier and 9 holes with my wife. Other than that it was pretty anti climatic, just my buddy saying, "dude, I think that went in".  

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While I have never got a hole in one ive been close enough to smell it. I dont belong to a club so the HIO insurance wouldnt help me. I also mostly play weekday evenings with who ever im paired with so buying rounds at the "non-existent clubhouse of my county track that closed 1 hour before I finished my round in the dark" is also out the window. I rarely play with friends or anyone I know. However, golf has a lot of tradition and etiquette build in so should I ever get a HIO on a course that allows me to go the clubhouse and get a drink after, your next drink at the bar while im there will be on me. Golf is not a cheap sport, so dont be a cheap schmuck when you hit one of the best and memorable shots of your life!  

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On 7/25/2020 at 5:39 PM, Phreddy said:

First I need to GET a hole-in-one!

 

 DITTO......

 

Ussually, buy the first one at the bar for the group and a few. In one of the leagues I play in; everyone has to pay an extra 5 bucks, to the guy but he ends up using it for beer. 

 

 

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