Golf Hole in ones

[spanishman]

Been playing over 20 years, never had one, not even witnessed one in person been a member of somewhere all them years as well!!

The average time it takes to get your first one is 24 years according to Google. So, on average, you should be due one soon.

 

[Millbrook]

Started my golfing education at prissick

One hole in one in my golfing ‘career’ at brancepeth castle: par 3 10th if anyone knows it. 198yds of toughness (!) off the white tees in the Saturday competition which definitely made it more special (!)

Awesome at that distance, well done.

 

[Borotommo]

Only seen one, by a playing partner. Never had one, yet.

 

[Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants]

I'm a member of Billingham, and I've never had a hole in one there, or anywhere else, in 25 years.

However, North Korean despot Kim Jong Il, the first time he’d ever played a round of golf, was highlighted by five aces.

#UTB

I’ve been close on the 8th and 16th

 

[Hammies_Tash]

I’ve been playing for 30+ years, never had one, been a few inches off a fair few times, always played off a reasonable 10-14 handicap. My eldest took up golf during lockdown, he’s had 3 already. One I was with him, par 4 at Halesworth (Suffolk) drove the 310 yards green, straight in the hole we knew it was close but still a shock when we got to the green and found his ball in the hole

 

[Blf]

I've had 4 in 30 yrs. 2 at Harpers and 2 at the muni. Last one was 3 yrs ago in a comp.

 

[BiggEggo]

Had one in 20yr. Horrible driving rain conditions. I was sure it had rolled behind the pin. Didnt realise it had dropped. When I got to the green and saw it missing, I first checked out back before I risked looking foolish by checking the cup.

I don't expect to get another.

 

[Nano]

Never been close. Not even seen one nearly go in with any playing partner either. I'm happy to just hit the green though to be fair.

 

[Aztec chimera]

I've had 4 in 30 yrs. 2 at Harpers and 2 at the muni. Last one was 3 yrs ago in a comp.

I bet the 2 at harpers were on the par 3 where you could use a putter from the tee and roll it down the hill to the hole.

 

[Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants]

I bet the 2 at harpers were on the par 3 where you could use a putter from the tee and roll it down the hill to the hole.

Was a nice flick of a wedge with the overhanging big tree on the right of the green.

 

[Blf]

I bet the 2 at harpers were on the par 3 where you could use a putter from the tee and roll it down the hill to the hole.

One was yes . The other was the par 4 as you went back over the other side of the course. Dog leg right or take the risk of going at the green over the big tees. I was sure I had gone too far into the water at the back. My mate shouted me over after checking the hole. Didn't see either of them but did see the muni ones on 2nd and 17th.

 

[Aztec chimera]

One was yes . The other was the par 4 as you went back over the other side of the course. Dog leg right or take the risk of going at the green over the big tees. I was sure I had gone too far into the water at the back. My mate shouted me over after checking the hole. Didn't see either of them but did see the muni ones on 2nd and 17th.

The par 4, was that the old 16th?

 

[FatFrank]

Only had one - been close dozens of times however including a questionable flag that was leaning to one side restricting the ball.

Mine happened at the 3rd at Cleethorpes Golf Club. On a weeks holiday there the year before, I noticed the local course offered a £10 a round deal during certain hours so the next year I took my clubs and had a wander around by myself. 151 yards, wind off the right helping my natural high draw. Perfect 9 iron. Great strike with it turning over towards the flag and then nothing. Didn't see it land, didn't see it roll anywhere, it couldn't have gone long!! I tried to ring my friend on the walk to the green in anticipation that nobody would believe me. No answer!!

Walked up to the hole and found my ball in the cup. Majority of people would never believe you but I take great pride in saying that as someone who loves golf and stands for every bit of etiquette within the game the ball had gone straight into the cup - taking a good chunk of the edge with it - see picture below. I'd never take a chunk of a hole for the sake of a HIO when I have been playing for 30 years. Shame really, it would have been nice to be playing with a group rather than just being stood on the next tee in complete misbelief by myself.

 

[Thing]

In 12 years playing competitive golf I have had one hole in one, The tangerine half wit across the pond says he has had seven, What a lying lump of $hit he is. much like Boris.

Is he counting Stormy Daniels - 3 holes in one?

 

[Rofesleg]

No the odds are massive....the chances are minute...
Bairdy out

My friend once got pocket aces in 3 consecutive hands of poker. Odds of about 11 million to 1.
Nothing to do with golf but not worth starting a new thread about.

 

[newyddion]

300,000 tee offs.. with the best gear and coaching.. mostly on his own courses. 9 doesn't sound that far off.. especially when he defo counts pitch and putt, crazy gold and those little plastic things for the office.

 

[borolad259]

I used to work on a golf show or two. I'm rubbish at golf, but it did lead me to appreciate it. There was a story in the press about some punter going to an independent bookmaker and asking for the odds of a hole in one at whatever major tournament was on that week .... the Masters/ The Open whatever. The bookie didn't know his golf and gave pretty big odds, which the punter laid into heavily.

The punter knew that Holes in one are fairly common place at that level .... with say 4 par 3s per round, four rounds, and a hundred plus of the best golfers on the planet playing them. It's almost nailed on.

 

[Nano]

I used to work on a golf show or two. I'm rubbish at golf, but it did lead me to appreciate it. There was a story in the press about some punter going to an independent bookmaker and asking for the odds of a hole in one at whatever major tournament was on that week .... the Masters/ The Open whatever. The bookie didn't know his golf and gave pretty big odds, which the punter laid into heavily.

The punter knew that Holes in one are fairly common place at that level .... with say 4 par 3s per round, four rounds, and a hundred plus of the best golfers on the planet playing them. It's almost nailed on.

1.32 per tournament is the average on the PGA tour. Not loads and there will be plenty of tournaments where there are none and others where there will be multiple. Rory McIlroy hit his first on the PGA tour at the weekend. 220 tournaments over 15 years.

 

[Rofesleg]

I used to work on a golf show or two. I'm rubbish at golf, but it did lead me to appreciate it. There was a story in the press about some punter going to an independent bookmaker and asking for the odds of a hole in one at whatever major tournament was on that week .... the Masters/ The Open whatever. The bookie didn't know his golf and gave pretty big odds, which the punter laid into heavily.

The punter knew that Holes in one are fairly common place at that level .... with say 4 par 3s per round, four rounds, and a hundred plus of the best golfers on the planet playing them. It's almost nailed on.

I remember that story. If it is the same one it was in the early 90s - before the internet was widely used for checking.
There was two of them, they would travel around, going to smaller betting shops getting odds on fairly obscure competitions or outcomes that seemed rare on the face of it.
'A hole in one at any of the majors' was one of them. They also won a lot on American sports such as points spread at the Superbowl, number of third strikes at the World Series. Stuff like that.
They had done their research and knew the actual odds, so knew when the bookies had slipped up.

They reckoned they became millionaires this way.

 

[borolad259]

That was probably it.