Posted on 04/19/2005 11:56:58 AM PDT by RogerWilko
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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