Posted on 04/19/2005 11:56:58 AM PDT by RogerWilko
Tell people that you've won the lottery and, chances are, they won't believe you. At least you have a little piece of paper and a big check if you're telling the truth. Tell people that you're one of three golfers who just made a hole in one on consecutive swings and there's no chance they're going to believe you. And all you have is a crumpled scorecard and your good word.
Bob Fleming, Marc Arcuri and Dan Condie say they made back-to-back-to-back ones Wednesday at the 15th hole at Antelope Greens. Their feat is going to inspire both awe and skepticism from golfers around the world.
"They all hit great shots," said Dave Schumacher, the one member of the foursome not to make an ace and forever to bear the burden as "the witness." "It's something that I'll never see again."
It's something that no one has likely seen before. The odds of an average golfer making a hole in one are 12,700 to 1, according to the National Hole in One Association. Golf Digest pegs the odds of two players in the same foursome acing the same hole at 17 million to 1. When three players on an Australian course made aces within 10 minutes, HoleInOne.com said the feat was 27 trillion to 1.
Pete Ames, the assistant manager at the Antelope course, said he has heard of one player making two holes in one in a round at the short course that features 14 par 3s and four par 4s. But nothing this crazy.
"If it was your average Joe coming in, I'd say you guys are full of it," Ames said. "But I happen to know these guys and have played a lot of golf with them. I'm 100 percent positive about it."
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Apparently, these guys are pretty good golfers, so either they really did do this, or they're playing a heck-of-a good April fool's day joke! I heard on the radio that the appearances they were supposed to make on TV were cancelled, so maybe they decided they don't believe them! WILD!!
I'm not a golfer but isn't doing it once considered to be a once in a lifetime thing for the average golfer?
The pin placement helped.
I'm not sure, but I use to play quite a bit a few years ago and I've never even gotten an eagle before! I gotten maybe a dozen birdies. I'm not that good though, my best score on a regulation 72 par is 88!
I usually hit the courses to help give them some free aeration!
Cool, if true. Reminds me of when I was playing a round of golf with my Dad and two of his buddies.
One of his buddies put the ball within 5 feet of the hole.
Buddy #2 says, "I'm going to put my ball inside of yours"... and sure enough he did, the ball rolling to within 2 feet of the cup.
My Dad says, I'm going to put my ball inside of both of youse guys", and put it in the hole!!
Me? I was so excited for my Dad that I chili-dipped my shot and it didn't even make it to the ladies tee.
In the article they say it's a ONE in 27 TRILLION chance of happening! I sure hope those guys bought some lottery tickets after that!
It really depends on how much you golf.
Professional golfers can have several, but they play hundreds of rounds a year.
I remember a tournament a year or so ago - I think it was sunday at the masters - where either two or three players shot a hole in one within 20 minutes of each other.
There's also the story of the long driving competition hitter that shot a hole in one on a long par 4.
Just like in WWII where a crtedible witness had to see you shoot down an enemy plane, there needs to be this in golf.
I once scored an eagle - holed my second shot on a par four. But three other people in my groupd winessed it.
Yawn . . . Didn't Kim Jung Il hit nine consecutive holes in one?
They're supposedly honest and good golfers, but maybe they decided to pull the scam of a life-time. They don't sound like the type though. If they did it, it's too bad there weren't some witnesses to verify it for them!
I can imagine practical joke scenarios. On holes where you can't see the green very well...
I don't buy it. Maybe if the green is shaped like a funnel and the pin was set in the low spot. The exitement that comes with one golfer getting an ace would surely screw up the others' shots.
Someone recently started a golf ping list, but for the life of me, I can't remember who it was....
Did they realize at the time it went in? Sometimes it's hard to tell if the green is higher than the tee, or the golfers are so old they can't see that far.
That's nothing. I once shot four aces. I 'd have had the fifth too, but I nicked the edge of King Kongs foot and had to take an eagle.
I see we have some Doubting Thomases here.
You gotta think on a short course like Antelope Greens there would have been several other groups on the course.
Think they heard some screamin' when the first one went in? How about the third? I imagine there were witnesses outside of the foursome.
My only "hole-in-one" was on a very short par-3 course, a hole of about 50 yards. And it was a lousy shot - I sculled the ball and it never left the ground, zipping straight through the wet grass until it lodged between the leaning flagstick and the rim of the cup. When I removed the flagstick, the ball dropped in. Probably the ugliest hole-in-one of all time.
I would think there would be a lot of screaming too if that happened!
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