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Posted on 08/07/2008 9:57:05 AM PDT by Domandred
Golfing for just the third time, 11-year-old Allan Saylor was whacking the ball around with a friend, not even keeping score. A hole-in-one? No big deal. The sixth-grader fired the ace Wednesday on the 150-yard, par-3 sixth hole at the neighboring Mandan Municipal Golf Course, using a driver borrowed from his buddy.
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"I didn't even know what a hole-in-one was," she said. "We're not golf people."
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Just wanted to post this and say SO NOT FAIR
That's what happens when you play with LUCK.
Tell me about it. I've been playing for more than 50 years and carry a single digit handicap. I play regularly with a group of about 16 other guys, all but one of whom have higher handicaps. I'm the only one without a hole-in-one. And don't think for a minute that I'm not reminded of it on a fairly regular basis.
Womens tee...
Driver on a 150 yd hole...
They made no mention of completing a full round...
Primary witness 11 year old friend...
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Not an ace.
Wow... the same thing almost happened to me... the VERY first time I ever played golf - when I was 12...
On my very first par 3 ever, I hit a shot that landed on the green, took two bounces, hit the pin and landed about 3 feet away...
I remember looking at my dad and saying “I thought you said that this game was hard”...
Of course, I never got close again.
I had to get in only about 3,762 rounds before I casually knocked off a hole-in-one. But who's counting?
> Not an ace.
Awwwww... be nice. It’s a kid, for pete’s sake. He’ll have bragging rights for the rest of his life. Maybe he’ll go on to do great things.
Give it to him. Be gracious, and try to forget how many times an ace has eluded you.
Hole in one, and goodonya kid!
Is too.
No hole-in-one yet, but my 6-year old son has a decent swing, and has beaten me on at least one par 3 hole at the executive 9 I take him to. And no-kidding, if there is golf on TV he prefers to watch it over cartoons. And when its over he grabs his clubs and wacks plastic balls all over the place in the back yard. He once even dug a hole in my lawn and stuck in a bucket for a cup. That did not make me happy. But, if he can go Pro some day and pay off Dad’s house ,I’ll forgive him.
The only hole in one I ever saw started off as a worm burner.
Read the article. Foursome in front of them witnessed it and told the club house before the kids got back.
If they didn’t play 18 its not an ace under USGA rules.
And this whole - come on it’s a kid give him a break - stuff...
Bullhockey - that’s the attitude that is ruining our society.
It is NOT jealousy on my part - he can score it a 1 on the card - fine - but propping up a kid for using a club unfit for the whole and letting him hit from the ladies tees is not teaching him golf and its not teaching him life.
And I take great pleasure in correcting your WHOLE to hole!
bah humbug to you
Not getting laid?
Poor kid will probably be chasing the dragon for the next 60 years.
Well just hunt him down and beat him with a stick. That's how you learn about life!
Or maybe he was just out having fun and doesn't need an uptight rules monger to teach him how to behave like an 11 year old.
So an ace played on 9 holes doesn't count? Wrong. USGA considers it a hole in one if played at least 9 holes.
You are assuming that they only played one hole, but in the article we find that it was at the sixth hole, meaning there were only 3 left till the ninth.
The people playing in front of them got back to the club house before the kids did. You saying those guys quit at the sixth hole as well?
Mandan Municipal Golf Course is only a 9 hole course, so by your 18 hole flawed thinking no holes in one on that course can ever be counted, unless the course is played twice around.
but propping up a kid for using a club unfit for the whole
Unfit for the hole? What the hell is this crap? Doesn't ever say that you must use a 5 iron for a 150 yard par 3. They were off the tee and the driver got the job done. If the kid can only get 150 yards out of a driver he uses the driver. Kid was using his equipment properly to his ability. Now if he had whacked the ball off the tee with a putter then you might have a valid point.
letting him hit from the ladies tees
Whatever. So women aren't allowed to count holes in one? The kid was 11, of course he's gonna use the ladies tee, or do you insist that in order to count an ace he has to swing from the pro level tee?
It is NOT jealousy on my part
Yea it is.
Can't believe I got sucked into this bickering over golf crap, but now that I got a long post may as well post it.
No, really it’s not jealousy. I haven’t been on a golf course in 2 years - I don’t live for golf.
Thank you for the clarification of the 9 hole rule - I admit my error.
Part of my comments were jut being a pain in the tail - stirring the pot, but I really do take issue with the fact that we make these things a big deal.
It’s a kid who got lucky - it’s not an accomplishment. There is a difference. Don’t make it out to be something that it’s not. To me this is like telling someone who hit the lottery what a great investment plan they had...
Been there...
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