Imagine the odds??

[elivate]

Two Holes in one in one round... amazing...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswi...1/nb-golf.html

[iacas]

Two Holes in one in one round... amazing...

We covered a similar story to this in one of our podcasts:

http://thesandtrap.com/archives/podc...pisode_030.php

[rembrandt]

That is amazing and I've read about a guy that hit two holes in one on the same hole in back to back rounds!

[Finn07]

(Not sure if this is for a new thread or not) Who on here has either had a hole in one or saw a hole in one. If you've had one tell about it (Club, yardage, etc). I will start by saying I have never had one nor have I ever saw one.

[MickelsonFlop]

I've got two HIO's

First was three years back at the Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head. I play there yearly since my parents have a place on the course. To make a long story short, it was 5 p.m. when we hit the 17th at Harbour Town. Par 3 (190 to the hole) hit perfect 6-iron into a left to right breeze. Ball hit short of the cup and disappeared into the hole. I didn't know how to react to the shot, so I just fell on my back and laughed.

Second one was at my home course back in Southlake, Texas. During golf practice one day, I aced the third hole from 185 out with a 7 iron. Hole is a downhill par 3 and the pin was playing perfectly for my draw. The ball hit about 20 feet short of the pin and rolled right in the cup.

Those are two of the best golf moments of my life. Thanks for letting me gloat a bit

[Rafcin]

one of the courses in Myrtle Beach (sorry, don't recall which one...) has a big brass plaque at the tee box, stating that "Mr. John Smith (?) from New York scored hole in one in the morning round and using the same club and the same ball scored hole in one in the afternoon replay round. It happend in October 1974 (or somethin')".
Pretty amazing.

[Rafcin]

Two Holes in one in one round... amazing...

btw - the "mathematical" odds for a amateur golfer to get a hole in one is something like 1:15000 only. I know that since I insured a $25000 prize for HIO in one of the tournaments I organized at my home course. If you assume it's true - getting 2 hole in ones in back to back rounds is still WAY more likely than winning a lottery

[Finn07]

They had a column in Golf Digest (Sept Issue) of the odds of hole in ones for all different scenarios. If I find it ill post it later on. Imagine the same ball, same club, same hole, geez. I just wonder if ill ever even see one let alone have one.

[Rafcin]

They had a column in Golf Digest (Sept Issue) of the odds of hole in ones for all different scenarios. If I find it ill post it later on. Imagine the same ball, same club, same hole, geez. I just wonder if ill ever even see one let alone have one.

Google returned this:

GOLF DIGEST has been the source for acer odds since the 1950s. To update them for the 21st century, we gave the latest numbers for rounds played each year (528 million) and estimated aces (100,000) to Francis Scheid, Ph.D., retired chairman of the mathematics department at Boston University. "It's simple arithmetic," Scheid says for the following scenarios, which assume four par 3s of varying lengths in an 18-hole round. A player making an ace in a given round: 5,000 to 1 Two players, same foursome, acing same hole: 17 million to 1 Acing a designated hole in a single round: 20,000 to 1 Two players in a field of 200 acing same hole in a single round: 5,000 to 1 Acing the same hole more than once in 1,000 rounds: 1 in 200 There wasn't anything about 2 HIO on the same hole in 2 back to back rounds.. I guess it's 1:20000 x 1:20000... still much better than lottery

[Finn07]

Yep that was it

[gripitandripit]

I've had 3 aces. The balls I used are in my pic. First was a 6 iron from 168. Second was a driver from 227 (3/4 swing into the wind) Third was a PW from 133.

[iacas]

I had zero. I've seen one.

In one day, playing with Rafi, I nearly saw three.

[Rafcin]

I had zero. I've seen one.In one day, playing with Rafi, I nearly saw three.

have one... seen 2 and "couldn't see" 1

( uphill par 3 w/o look at the green - went in, but we never seen it going in)

[Konrad]

I've never had one, and I've never seen one. That's pretty sad considering I play hundreds of rounds a year.. :-p

[cdriver]

I have seen two and had none. One of my friends got one his first time to play. He hit driver on longest hole on par 3 course. 175 yard worm-burner that hit the stick and dropped in the hole. Doesn't that just melt your butter.

[Jeepthrills]

I have none and I haven't seen any. I missed one by about 6 inches this year and by less than 3 inches two years ago. I did hole out from 93 yards last year.

I read in an article about Ben Hogan that he never reported having a single hole-in-one. It was his long time secretary that said she never knew him to have one in any compettetive or casual round. Not even in practice. Granted, the guy was so focused that he may not have noticed that it went in. Or maybe he was just pissed because it didn't land on his target on the green instead. If this is the case, I do feel alot better about never having one.

[mnel]

Some people are not going to believe this. Fact is, I'm not sure that I believe it. But here goes it goes anyway...

Driving home from work (I would say two weeks ago, thus late July), our local news station carried the story. They are very credible, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, so I took what they say at face value. (Graeme Joffe is a sports presenter there as well, for those of you who don't know him, he used to present for CNN, he's back in South Africa now) I'll look around and see if I can confirm this story on the net.

Some guy hit a hole in one, on the same course and same hole, in three consecutive rounds.

Try calculate the odds on that one...

Confirmed it, here's the link: http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/in...?id=1044512006

[Jeepthrills]

I did that once. Only the course I was on had a clowns mouth and a windmill.