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In 20 years of playing up until this season I've never gotten one, nor have I witnessed any from anyone I've ever played with. But on my second time out this year, I potted one ... I chalked it up as one of those neat events that I'd like to have happen to me before I die. The story gets better.

On the very next round, in front of my regular foursome who wrote off my hole-in-one as a 'big-fish-that-got-away' story, I got my second of the year! What gives? All I know is I had to pay for many beers, and that it's time to start playing the lottery full-time.

I play about 15 rounds per year and average mid 90's ... nothing to brag about. I'm just wondering how rare is it to pump in 2 holes-in-one in a season?

what do you mean you had to "pay for many beers" they should've been buying you a drink.

I'd say it's quite rare getting 2 HIO in back to back rounds

the way my group has it is if someone gets a hole in one, the other 3 will pay a hundred bucks each. then whoever got the hole in one will buy all the drinks that night. is anyone else the same or is my group just

A little over a year ago, I was playing my home course with my regular foursome (we are all twenty-something handicappers). On the PAR 3 16th, three of us hit our irons in the usual places. Bunker left, water right and restroom long. The fourth to tee it up addressed his ball with a cigarette in his mouth, his knees locked, elbows pointing down Hogan style, and he was leaning back so far it looked like he would fall backward if he let go of the club (a 5 iron as I recall). Being a PAR 3, there was no fairway but there was hard-pan and bermuda between the tee and green. Our buddy cocked his head to the right as though he was putting his good left eye on the ball (actually he was trying to keep the smoke from his cigarette out of his eyes), drew back and let it rip.

He bladed it, and the ball took off low and hot. About half way to the green it started skipping on the hard-pan like a stone on water. The approach to the green slowed the ball down enough for it to settle, and once on the green, it rolled neatly to the cup and in.

None of us had ever seen a hole-in-one before (or since) and we just stood there with our mouths open staring in disbelief. Then we celebrated long and loud (as high handicappers are prone to do). The shot was not very pretty but the big ONE on the score card was. To this day he always reminds us that he is Mr. Hole-in-One and the only one in our group that has one. We have a different name for him though.

Yes, he had to buy drinks for the house when we got back to the club. That's the price of fame on the golf course.

Bob V

When my wife started golfing, we were playing at a executive 9 for one of her first times out. About the 5th hole, about a 90 yarder, she skulls a worm burner and it hits the flag. Didn't go in, but it just about killed me. I have had the group in front of my hole out twice in my life, but none for me or who I have been golfing with.

I just figured out that I have actually been playing since 1960, possibly '59, and I have never had a hole-in-one. Been within a couple of inches of several, but never in, so I would say that two in a season is rather rare.

1962 - I was 15 yrs. old playing on Caddie's day at Springbrook CC. 10th hole is par 3 over water. Dumped the first one in (about 145 yds.). Went to the regular "drop" tee (125 yds. over water) and holed it for a par.

Don't think I'll ever get an ace, but no big deal. I'd gladly trade one ace for a thousand near misses!

Hey, thanks for asking! Got my ace 6 yrs ago. Amazing how often I replay it in my mind; still can't believe it.

At the time, I was an 18 hdcp on my home course (where it happened, during a men's club event). Second hole, 148 yds, 6-iron. Sucker pin: front right, tight behind a bunker. Normally, I'd go for the middle of the green, but in this event our entire foursome was a team and only 2 of our scores on this hole would count, so we all went flag-hunting. Planned the shot carefully, allowing for my slight fade. Got myself set up and then my swing thought was simply "get it over the trap!"

The shot came off exactly as planned. Well, not exactly: I wasn't planning an ace! Ball took off on the intended line, started its fade toward the flag, landed short (here's the luckiest part: I got a true bounce off the ground in front of the green), hopped on, and started rolling toward the cup. One guy said, "This is gonna be good." A second later, another guy gives the obligatory "Go in!" And it dropped in sweetly, just like a putt.

They all yelled. A guy from the foursome behind us had hit onto our tee and was waiting for us to hit our shots before he hit his, so he saw it, too. He yelled back to his group, "Guy just made a hole-in-one!" Myself, I was dumbfounded, speechless. I gave a whoop because I thought it'd look stupid if I didn't! It was weird to look at the green and NOT see my ball there.

At the 9th hole, I stopped in the pro shop and told everyone I'd be buying drinks at the end of my round. I had decided earlier that if I ever got a hole-in-one, I'd spend a LOT of money buying drinks, so I wanted the word to get around. But my group was one of the last to finish, and a lot of guys had gone home. Only cost me $22.50 for a few pitchers of beer.

Hope I don't sound like I'm bragging. I'm a bogey golfer who shot 92 last weekend. But even guys like us can hit good shots. So, if you haven't had one, keep the dream alive. It could happen.

If I ever got an ace, I'd replay it in my mind all the time for years to come, too.

Last week I saw a lady hit off the tee at the 8th hole of El Caro in Phoenix, AZ then curse like **** and walk off the tee thinking she over shot the green, hit the bottom of the pin and drop in. she looked for her ball for 5 minutes, came back to the tee to hit another (Thinking she lost it), so I told her to look in the hole. Of course she gave me the deer-in-the-headlights look, but eventually found her ball.

I am just the other way, it is usually weird when my ball finds the green

Nice job Jim. Have you checked out the ESPN board lately
I have never seen it that bad.


Thanks again Vic for setting this board up for us

never had one, though I came close about 11 or 12 years ago on a horrible worm burner, about 130yd hole in NW Ohio skipped it off the tee box and along the "fairway", it hopped up on the green and stopped about 2 feet behind the hole. Judging by the slope and the line it took, it must have missed by inches.

Though come to think of it, I've had a few pretty approaches that wound up within 3 or 4 feet that I felt much better about, but still no ace.

the one thing I never understood is the phrase "I got mine on..."

It makes it sound like everyone gets one sometime. Unfortunately, that's most likely not true, though I hope I get "mine" soon!

Yeah, Keith, it's a mess. Seems a lot of the good guys have disappeared, and some of the good ones who've hung around are spending part of their time engaging the trolls. I don't know why the good ones haven't joined us here.

Victor: I join Keith in giving you a big thumbs-up. Given the topic of this thread, let me say you are an "ace" in my book!

Yea,

my 12 yr old has 2 HIO's. I'm 50 and have none! Life ain't fair !

-Bulls9999

ive never had a hole-in-one in a proper round, though i had one in interesting circumstances last week!

i was getting a lesson with the local pro, on a 140 yard practice hole. after the lesson ended, after hitting about 40 balls to this hole, the pro said to me: "hit another one there before you go" well i hit it sweetly, it took a bounce just past the hole and spun bakc into the hole! it looked so good! i know it doesnt count, but in my mind it does!