Any good hole-in-one stories?

[bmaas03]

Hit my first one last night...

Finished the 11th hole, course superintendent was working on the back tees on the 12th hole, so I drove ahead to the forward tee.
Plays as a 266 yard par 4 for women or seniors. The back tee plays as a 370 yard par 4. Water in front of the tees with trees and OB on the right. Bunkers on both sides of the green.
Anyway...stepped up, hit a 3 wood with a little draw over the trees. Landed on the green and disappeared over the front edge of the green. I didn't see it roll beyond the hole, so I thought on my way up that it had a chance, but who can be that lucky, right?
Grabbed a wedge, headed for the green thinking it would be in the rough somewhere. Walked towards the hole & there it was...Titleist ProV1x #4.
Unlucky part...I was playing alone...looked back to see if the superindentent was paying attention - of course not. No one saw it.
Closest guy was on the tee adjacent to my next hole.
Bummer...but my bar bill turned out to be only $35 and I got a free polo from the club.

[Spumoni]

Had my clubs stolen along with my car back on Jan 1st 2003. I was kind of bummed that my car was gone but I was really pissed when I realized I forgot to take the clubs out of the trunk after playing two days before.

Took me about a month to fill out the insurance papers to get the car fixed & the clubs replaced. Played the 1st time with the new clubs on Jan 31st 2003. Had a hole in one the first time I ever hit the new 4 iron on the 190 yard par 3 4th hole at Twin Peaks golf course. Probably the only good 4 iron I ever hit with those clubs.... :bad:

[lutherham]

June 1st, 2007....Friday evening playing with a couple of buddies. Only ones on the entire back nine. My buddy from the Proshop comes out to watch us and supply us with some aiming fluid. The sun has set and we are in a stumbling flourish to finish before it's pitch black. I decide to knock down an 8-iron and I flush it in the right direction. As we walk up I realize there is nothing on the green, but I could be long.....Pitch mark is 4 ft short. Titleist #3 is in the bucket and I realize I am going to need some serious Advil and bump back my tee time a couple hours the next morning!!!!! It was easily in the top 10 moments of my life. Cheers! :bad:

[agolfer]

Par three with creek in front. First ball in creek, tee up another one and in the hole. Did not do it, but saw it done. Not a hole-in-one, but a great story.

[oneplanedan]

I am a caddie and have seen a few...

 

This old lady (sweet as can be) on a 156yrd par 3 downhill wanted 5 wood talked her into 3 wood hit it ...got to the green looking everywhere..... i go look in the cup.....she got about phil height off the green................ordered champange.......delivered by 14 got f***** up by 18

 

Had total hack.....chopper ...should not be playing should be practicing............2nd hole 146 yrd 3 hits low thin topped burner catches rough slightly..bounce... bounce bounce.......roll back pin dunk....shot never got more than 2 feet off the ground finished with 114 on the card

 

Had a really cool, good golfing pro(x tour member) had not had a birdie in three rounds and was loosing his shi*.....we go out standing on a island green par 3 (still no birdies) he hit's a perfect 9 drawing in from over the marsh to a tucked front right pin..........two hops in.....everyone is yelling cheering clapping.......he comes to put the club in the bag and I look at him and say"you still don't have a birdie".....................as I said he's really cool and got a kick out of it and I came in to have a few at the bar.

 

Missed one today inches from the cup...4 iron 190 wind of the right knocking down.....good thing no witnesses

[teeituphigh]

132 yard hole at my home club (howick), told my mate i was gonna throw it past the pin and suck it back in with a wedge. Called it perfectly! Shot 67 (2 under)

 

168 yard hole at Omaha, over water, 2 tier green- not a nice hole. 7 iron straight at it but as it was uphill i couldnt see the bottom of the pin. Group behind us were a 2 ball so we let them through and waited on the tee- both chopped it up and didnt hole out- if they had of they wouldve seen my ball in the cup!! Shot 63 (5 under) Oh yeah, and i had an accident in my car on the way to the course too!

 

Shot of my life: 3 wood from fairway bunker 230 yrds, OB left bunker right- holed it for a 2 on a par 5 :bad: Made the local paper for that one as it was in a tournament...ended up with a 68

[Shaitan]

I've knocked one in on a 280yd downhill par4 dogleg right, water and trees protecting green on right - only 6 weeks ago, it was just a pity that it was a subpar course and they wouldn't give me anything for it :ok: - and I had witnesses. Driver, slight cut, thought I'd hit to far and was looking in the bushes over the green when my buddy yells out if I've was hitting a Titleist prov1x 4, I said yeah and he yelled back at me, its in the hole. We did a little Smash Bros thing on the green and ran around for a while :bad:. Pretty cool - I then got my first eagle on a par 5 that weekend.

 

Edit: I shot -4 for the 9 for the record

[threeputter]

Played a practice round three years ago with a Nationwide tour pro. 143 yd par 3, hit it ten feet past the hole, checked up and started pulling back. Dropped in the hole. His swing coach and he were jumping and screaming more than me. I was like, guys cool it, were disturbing everyone else.

 

2 weeks ago, I had two different par 3, one was 205 to the hole with a 4 iron, literally 1 inch short of the hole. 2 holes later, 123 par 3, hit a gap wedge, checks up and rolls back to the hole, winds up about 2 inches. Either one gets another roll, they go in. The guys I was playing with kept calling me a cheap bastxxx saying I did it on purpose so I wouldn't have to buy the beer.

[Dizz]

I have three but my first one was pretty special. I was only 12 years old, first time I ever played 9 holes in my life...the second hole of my life I hit a thin 5 iron from 145 yards and it bounces in. Ended up shooting 61. :bad:

[sflaspprentice]

First one I had was with a 5 some...4 of my friends one was on the college golf team with me. I had a terrible start, got to the 4th hole blind 140 yard par 3. Grabbed an 8 threw the ball on the ground and swung...looking and looking still no luck...all of a sudden i walk towards the hole and my buddy on the team throws his beer and jumps on to me front piggy back screaming at the top of his lungs

 

Second was but wasnt. I was working as a pro and hit a shot for the ladies during their susan b. kommen pink ribbon event. Hitting from the reds the third group came up and one woman said if i drained one she would take care of me (still waiting) I hit the first 2 in the bunker, and the third short fringe. The final lady who was one of the best gave me her Crystal ball and I hit it looked and saw it spin, as the others walked away I said it went in...sure enough, she won $150 pro shop credit. it was nice to see a good one get it

 

Third one was my favorite. #7 at Adios in Boca really exclusive mens club in South Florida. I was hitting the ball as good as I ever had and couldnt make a putt for my life. I get to this one 217 slight breeze I grab the 3 and stroke it. Our group hears a huge THWACK which sounded like the pin but never saw a bounce. I get up there and sure enough...slam dunked it. No ball mark.

[thorsness]

Here's a good one for you. So yesturday I'm playing golf with a buddy. We step onto the 5th tee, a 212 yard par 3. There is a huge wind at our back, probably about 20mph. I go first and hit a 5 iron to about 15 feet, then my buddy then steps up and hits his 4 wood. He pulls it about 5 yard left, but once it lands it gets a huge kick to the right and then starts tracking toward the hole, then the ball disapears. I start shouting because I'm pretty sure it went in the hole, he isn't very excited becaese he is saying it's just behind the hole. When we get up there, sure enough it's a Ace.

 

Now fast forward to today at about 3:30. I get a phone call from this same guy, and the conversation goes something like this:

 

Todd: Hello?

J: Hey Todd, you should have seen the bomb I drained today...

Todd: O yeah? How far?

J: About 157 yards.....with a 7 wood. There was a massive wind in my face.

Todd: What?

J: I aced #7 today....

Todd: No F@*$ing way!

 

I didn't believe him at first, but it was on the local news and everything. Two holes in one in 2 days, and before this he has never had one.

[Sean2]

168 yard par 3 into a strong wind. Rock hard fairways and greens. Severely slopping green from left to right. Pin located all the way right. Gripped way down on a 5-wood. Hit a low punch, landed well short of green, rolled to left side of green, then trickled all the way down to the hole and went in.

[cdesana]

I was playing in the semi finals of my match play club championship when I got closed out on the 17th hole. Since our 18th hole was a par 3, and there is always a lot of betting from the balcony on who is closest to the pin we decided to play the last whole even after the match was over. Not to mention we have a hole in one club that pays off some big money if one is made.

 

The guy who won the match hits his shot in the middle of the green, then I step up and hit a 9 iron in the hole to win the $2,000 dollar hole in won pool. I turned to him and said good luck in the final, but I will take the money and be happy.

 

O, and thanks for suggesting to play the round out!

[DemolitionMan]

There's the woman in SoCal who has had more Aces this year than the entire PGA Tour.

 

Read this story from May when she had 10 aces this year!

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1179433603...=googlenews_wsj

 

Since then she has four more aces and when a tv station was skeptical so they did a story, she hit one on TV!

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770

 

I don't even know what to call that kind of luck.

[freelanceterry]

Made an ace during our men's night on the hole with the closest to the pin pot on it.

 

Got to write my name and a "0" on the sheet.

 

Tough to get closer than that.

 

(150yd, downhill, into the wind, punch 8 FYI)

[shawnee]

Congrats to you! I got my first one 2 years ago at 42y.o. and after playing for 35 years...

[MojoEd]

This May 4th at VA National for a charity outing. Not me, but one of my regular buddies got a hole in one on a Par 3, 173 yards. The bonus was that it was set up as a $5k hole-in-one bonus hole (it took them six weeks, but the company that sold the charity the insurance finally paid up). The kicker was that he used a driver (Taylormade 580xd 12 degrees with senior shaft). He took a lot of grief for using a driver, but with $5k and a hole in one, he was more than happy to take it.

[freddiec]

I have what I think is a great one. First week of September 1994, I'm playing Shaker Hills in Harvard, Mass. I'm on the 13th hole a 140 yd , extremely down hill par 3. We are on the tee waiting to hit, when somebody goes nuts on an adjacent hole (another par 3) going in the other direction. We run over the hill and a guy and his group are celebrating a hole in one. After we high five the guy, we walk back to our tee and I hit a 9 iron into the cup for a hole in one. How is that?

[Cameron Carter]

I have gotta a good one...

 

Two years ago my uncle was in a scramble on a decent 9 hole casino course and on the 7th hole there is a 160 yrd. par downhill par 3 and if you get hole in one you win a brand new pontiac sportscar. So its sunday and they are on the 7th hole for their second nine of the day he gets his hole in one and the pontiac dealer shook his hand saying he was going to get the car. Then the tournament director says "no it was only for the 7th hole and not for no. 16" but remember it was a nine hole course so he was majorly screwed. so no new brand new pontiac for him. btw this is ironic he just got a hole in one yesterday too.

[peat24]

my crappy home course, me, myself and i; about 7pm. i was hitting everything with a slight draw that night--which if you ask my friends is unheard of. i get up to a short par 3, 150 yds, slight uphill with the smallest green you have ever seen--think king sized mattress. since i was hitting left i aimed right of the green to bring it back. whack, nice hit with an 8i, draw, one bounce in the front rolls over a hill out of sight. i get up to the green and there isn't a ball in sight. i make a quick lap around the rough and nothing. i peak in the cup and there is my noodle staring back at me. i went nuts--by myself. some guy one hole over heard me, looked pissed that i was yelling, and he didn't care. i called my golfing buddies on the next tee, another par 3, and managed a bogie. i carded a 33 (par 34) bought a genny light for myself and watched the sun set.

[sirvinim]

My buddy got married in CA 2 years ago. My wife (fiancee at the time) told me if I want to play Pebble then we might as well do it a couple days after the wedding since we'll be in CA. She played with me and we were paired with two French guys. The marshal was on us after the 4th hole to speed up a little bit. We get to #7 and a different marshal pulls up and tells the French guys we need to speed up. He also tells them to play the hole like it's 85 yards, not the listed 105 yards, due to the tail wind and downhill elevation. I had brought my pitching wedge and 9-iron to the tee and already had the 9-iron in hand. I hit a little baby chip shot praying it would hit the green. My ball hit about 15 feet short of the cup and started breaking to the right, straight at the hole. Popped against the pin and dropped. We couldn't believe it. The best part about it was my wife took a picture just after I hit the ball. I can see the ball in the picture flying towards the green.

 

The marshal was right there and called the club house. After the round they gave me a commemorative flag and a certificate signed by the head pro, not Laird Small, by the way. What an awesome feeling it was. And we didn't see another marshal the rest of the day. What sucks is one of the French guys birdied the hole but it just isn't the same as an ace on #7 at Pebble. This was on June 27, 2005, two years ago yesterday! I have the pictures to prove it! And my shot should be in my avatar.

[freddiec]

Sirvrin, thats an awesome story. Thats a fun hole. I played it once also. Hit SW from tee closer to the ocean. Nice shot!

[FairwayFred]

My only hole in one came on the 14th hole at Pacific Dunes in Bandon Oregon. (#1 ranked public course in the USA) The tee was up and playing about 120y. There was about a 35mph wind in my face. I had a brand new set of Scratch irons in my bag (the first set of Scratch irons that I had ever put in play) and I had not hit the 5 iron yet. I pulled the brand new never been hit 5 iron (the clubs had come back from the plater only a couple days before and we had not had a chance to hit balls before our round so this club had literally never touched a ball) and hit a tiny little punch shot that landed on the front of the green and rolled slowly into the hole. I hope to get more than 1 but the first one could not have been better.

 

Another good story,

A number of years ago during a summer break from college I drove to play golf and hang out for the night with a friend of mine (named Jerry who was my roommate first year) who was turning 21 that day. 4 of us were going out for a round and then meeting more friends at the bar after to buy him a few refreshments. The two of us had a pretty good rivalry on the course and always played hard to beat each other. I started out hot and birdied the first 3 holes. He par'd the first 2 and birdied 3. On the 4th hole, a 140 yard par 3 to a small back to front slanting green, I hit my tee shot to about 15 feet and walk to the side. One of the other 2 guys (Brian) who made a par steps up to hit his shot. He puts his tee/ball in the ground, steps back, gets his aim, makes a practice swing, steps back again and then goes to address his ball. Before he can hit the ball Jerry calls out "500 years of tradition, who are you to mess with that? I believe I made birdie on that hole what did you make exactly?" Brian laughs, says he is sorry and steps back. Jerry makes a big show of walking up on the tee, throwing his ball on the ground hard with no tee, takes no practice swing and just hits the ball at the hole. The ball lands about 30 feet behind the hole and spins back right into the hole. (gotta love Tour Balatas) The best part was now instead of us buying Jerry drinks all that day on his 21st birthday, he had to buy us drinks all day. The "500 years or tradition" line is now standard any time someone goes to steal your tee after a birdie or better.

[pucci]

I used to play with an old family friend, he had just started golf so gave him 2 shots on every hole, me of scratch, any how - get to the 6th at my old club, 130yards, I go - hit it straight in the hole - old dude can't see very well and doesnt see it - ah well. Hits his shot to the front of the green and chips in, his first sodding birdie - he wins the hole :|

2 weeks later, playing with the same guy, get to the par 4 265 yard 13th - I smack a 3 wood up - can't see the green so didn't see it go in.

Sadly the family friend died last year, but left me with 2 of the best memories! (not forgiven him yet for beating me on that hole)

[sfrank711]

Was playing in our church tournament, shotgun start and my group had started on #7 on the B course. Finished our round, played poorly I might add, and since the course was wide open with no one in sight we went ahead and played the last 2 holes between us and the clubhouse. #9, 178 yds, elevated green with the pin tucked safely behind a bunker, hole sitting right below the clubhouse patio with a good number of people well along in their drinking endeavours. I hit a nice draw with a new hybrid I had just gotten a week or two earlier and thought I had gone over as I saw it bounce and disapear. Well, about half way down the fairway I realized what had happened due to the people cheering, which caused me a bit of embarassment as I'm not really an attention person and kind of felt like I had cheated in some way due to the fact that I had paid for 18 holes and just had a heap of attention drawn to me on the 20th. My friends had stopped, giving me the whole victorious walk down the final hole treatment thingy. The drunks are still going crazy, probably because of the free drinks they saw in their near future. A couple of really nice older gentlemen came down from the patio and congratulated me as I sheepishly tried to explain that it really shouldn't count, etc. They talked a bit of sense in to me and escorted me to the pro shop where one of them very generously signed me up and paid for the little plaque thing. Then I went out to the patio and bought a round of cokes for the folks out there since one, I don't drink alcohol and two, I was playing in my church tournament, a Southern Baptist church. They all took it rather well and probably used the coke as a mixer or something. All in all, a very cool experience, somewhat surreal but not really a life-changing experience or anything like that. Just an extremely lucky one.

[irish]

I've had 2 holes in one.

 

Both with the lowest, dirtyest, little ribbers ever witnessed.

 

Its the score that counts, yeah

 

No pictures on a scorecard, yeah

[deepballer]

It was Sept. 1st 2005. My 31st birthday actually.

My wife, my closest brother, myself and my oldest brother were going out golfing for my birthday.

We were at my brothers before we went to the golf course and my oldest brother backs out on us.

In place his son decides to come out with us.

We are having a blast. Never played with my nephew before.

He's only played 5 times and is hitting the ball pretty good.

Spraying the ball a bit but hitting 270 yard drives for a skinny lil' *****, irons off a little, some skull and duffs but chips and putts were real good. For only 5 times total including one range not bad.

We get to the 12th hole, a short par 3. 140 yards. Water right with a big tree and branches and leaves covering the very left front of the green...ermm...my NEPHEW on my birthday steps up and hits this ugly wormburner that is running up to the green. "Hold on this could be good! You might like this".

It keeps running to the green and we see the flag rattle and than NOTHING.

We weren't sure if it went in or if it ran past the hole and behind the slope.

IT WENT IN. :) :betty: :cheesy:

[electroleum]

My buddy from the Proshop comes out to watch us and supply us with some aiming fluid.

 

hahaha, aiming fluid....that's gold!

[ice8888]

first and only hole in one... playing in a charity scramble for a very good friend of mine that was paralyzed a few years back. in the group were his two brothers and a friend that grew up right down the street... they all hit, and we had nothing on the green because it was the first hole of the day and well, a few drinks had already been consumed. stepped up, hit a gap wedge 120, landed it about 3 feet past the pin and spun it back in for an ace. there were about 6 groups around the hole between the tee box, the hole behind, and the hole in front, so it was a pretty cool little party that we had.

 

the funniest part was that after i put my name and "hole in one" on the closest to the pin sheet, there were about 6 names for other people. i guess they thought i was lying...

[Stallion89]

Mine happened back in high school while I was playing in the state tournament. I got to the fifteenth hole, Par 4 about 350 yards. Hit a perfect drive right at the green. I could not see the ball the entire way but when we got down to the green I could not find my ball. I went to the cup (as I do a lot when I can't find my ball) just hoping to see my ball in there. This time i did get lucky. I got a hole in one on a par four. It was the talk of the tournament. I don't think anyone remembers who won but they remember that shot haha.