Aces

[bostonboy9416]

Hit a hole in one a few weeks back on vacation in Hawaii. I (15 years old) hit it on the 5th hold @ the North Course of the Mauna Lani with a pitching wedge. Best feeling of my life. Figured I'd just start this thread to hear other people's experiences with their first/most memorable ace; it's a great feeling and I'd love to see what other people have experienced with it as well - timing, course, etc.

[chilepepper]

I'll just live vicariously through those who have been there

[bkuehn1952]

2 hours ago, bostonboy9416 said:

Hit a hole in one a few weeks back on vacation in Hawaii. I (15 years old) hit it on the 5th hold @ the North Course of the Mauna Lani with a pitching wedge. 

Well done.  Congratulations.

[Fourputt]

9 hours ago, bostonboy9416 said:

Hit a hole in one a few weeks back on vacation in Hawaii. I (15 years old) hit it on the 5th hold @ the North Course of the Mauna Lani with a pitching wedge. Best feeling of my life. Figured I'd just start this thread to hear other people's experiences with their first/most memorable ace; it's a great feeling and I'd love to see what other people have experienced with it as well - timing, course, etc.

It's a good feeling.  I made my first one 27 years ago, in the 4th round of the 1989 club championship.  I made my second one 9 months later and I've never made a third.  Enjoy it while you can, because that sort of lucky break may not come again. 

[iplaygolf00]

I was so close to aces but just missed. hehe. I recently started playing golf again after a long time and this was really amazing feeling.

[RayG]

I hate you....

Forty SIX years and counting.

[skywaterbanjo]

I do not consider myself to be a lucky person (fortunate, yes, not lucky).  I've been playing golf since I turned 51 (am now 62) have and have had 5 HIOs in 4 years (2 in the past 4 months).  They are luck, plain and simple.  A modicum of skill is required to get the ball started but, if it ends up in the hole, you got lucky.

 

[Patch]

I give congratulations to anyone who gets a hio. Yeah, there is some luck involed, but a lot right stuff was involved too.  A "1" on a score card looks really, really good. 

 After a little instruction from me, I took a friend golfing. It was his first time on a golf course. Very first swing on the first hole, he one hops the ball into the hole. For the next 17 holes, thats all he spoke about.  He was well over a hundred for that, his first round. 

My last one was poor swing/hit. It was a par 3. Hole was on the left, with a home near by. I aimed right to avoid the home, since folks were in their back yard.  I pulled the shot and it rolled in. Go figure. 

[DaveP043]

17 hours ago, bostonboy9416 said:

Hit a hole in one a few weeks back on vacation in Hawaii. I (15 years old) hit it on the 5th hold @ the North Course of the Mauna Lani with a pitching wedge. Best feeling of my life. Figured I'd just start this thread to hear other people's experiences with their first/most memorable ace; it's a great feeling and I'd love to see what other people have experienced with it as well - timing, course, etc.

Congratulations! 

I've been lucky enough to have two aces, in something like 45 years of playing golf.  My first was in 1984 with my soon-to-be father-in-law at his club, Cumberland CC, in western Maryland.  A nice downhill hole, something like 150 yards, I think I hit an 8-iron that two-hopped into the hole.  

And then I waited almost 31 years, until last spring I made one at the 4th hole at my home club, Stoneleigh GC in Virginia.  Uphill, 174 yards, blind, I hit a  4 iron that drew gently toward the flag before disappearing over the front of the green.  Didn't see it walking up, so I looked into the hole, and there it was.

[Wally Fairway]

1 hour ago, RayG said:

I hate you....

Forty SIX years and counting.

+12 - Fifty eight year for me, but only 50'ish of them playing golf......yet to get one of my own  

Congrats to BostonBoy, don't quit just because you have one!

[bostonboy9416]

23 hours ago, Patch said:

I give congratulations to anyone who gets a hio. Yeah, there is some luck involed, but a lot right stuff was involved too.  A "1" on a score card looks really, really good. 

 After a little instruction from me, I took a friend golfing. It was his first time on a golf course. Very first swing on the first hole, he one hops the ball into the hole. For the next 17 holes, thats all he spoke about.  He was well over a hundred for that, his first round. 

My last one was poor swing/hit. It was a par 3. Hole was on the left, with a home near by. I aimed right to avoid the home, since folks were in their back yard.  I pulled the shot and it rolled in. Go figure. 

First swing on a course and he rolls it in. I've always pictured that happening, but never have I seen/heard a real example of that happening. Must've been pretty cool/funny to witness that. And, yeah, go figure - that's golf in a nutshell; aim one way, goes the other, and it helps you out big time.

On 4/20/2016 at 9:48 AM, skywaterbanjo said:

I do not consider myself to be a lucky person (fortunate, yes, not lucky).  I've been playing golf since I turned 51 (am now 62) have and have had 5 HIOs in 4 years (2 in the past 4 months).  They are luck, plain and simple.  A modicum of skill is required to get the ball started but, if it ends up in the hole, you got lucky.

 

Oh without a doubt there's a ton of luck. Land an inch away from the landing spot needed for a HIO, could hit a divot or something on the green and spin off in a completely different direction. 5 HIOs in 4 years is something to be proud of though, congratulations.

[Mop Bucket]

I only have one and it came when I was around 16. I got it on one of the tougher holes this course had to offer. It was a par 3, 265 yards from the tips. The green is split into two tiers with a crazy amount of break in the middle. To the left is a giant pot bunker and behind is downsloped that feeds into small scattered pines.

I usually would play a 3-wood short to avoid any trouble and not complain about taking my bogey. That day the hole was playing pretty long though, so I decided to swing at it with a driver. I remember the shot pretty well, it was a floaty, left-to-right draw that started over the pot bunker and worked its way to the left collar of the green. It hit right at the break and bounced up into a roll towards the back left corner of the green where it found the hole. I still can't believe it to this day considering how much anxiety that damn hole would give me. It ended up being the course record for longest ace until two weeks later, a guy dumped one in on a 320 yard par 4.

[phan52]

A 70 year old player at our club had a hole-in-one on a 238 yard par 3 yesterday. It is only the 8th or 9th hole-in-one ever recorded on that hole from the men's tee, and the PGA Tour had a stop there for 18 years, so a lot of good players have had a shot at it. The most amazing thing about it is that it was his FIFTEENTH hole in one. He's a terrific player and one of the better seniors in the Philly area, but fifteen? Wow.

Edited April 22, 2016 by phan52

[BuckeyeNut]

Well done...congrats!   I only have 1 ace.............. 164yd 8-iron.  A great feeling to hole-out to be sure!!

 

I also have 12 par4 Deuces.........

[Club Rat]

Today I had that lucky moment in golf when my shot hit next to the flagstick and the ball spun to the flag and then disappeared.

We couldn't tell if it was in the hole, or behind the flagstick with the hole located on a ridge at the back of the green.

I told my friends, I think it spun back into the hole and once we got closer to the green we cold see it did not roll over the ridge to the back of the green and that's when the excitement started.

I had my friend video me walking to the pin to retrieve my ball just for grins.

Spoiler

Oh, I had three other birdies, for a ho hum nine hole round.  

The cold Budweiser sure had a great taste today after the round .....

 

 

 

[RandallT]

Congrats! I embedded it for you- not sure why yours wouldn't have worked. What a thrill!!!

[PJCdude]

Congrats dude....my avatar is the closest I've gotten. Was a slight pull-fade that rolled behind the cup...for a split second from 150 yds away I thought I had it.

[Club Rat]

1 hour ago, RandallT said:

Congrats! I embedded it for you

Thanks Randall, Gonna pocket a very nice "Hole in One" kitty from the club.

Funny thing was I just bought these new Cally XP Pro irons last month from a friend who didn't like them, and I sent him a text afterwards thanking him for the clubs.

 

1 hour ago, PJCdude said:

closest I've gotten

Thanks PJC, they seem to happen when you least expect it to. Hope your day happens soon. It's a thrill.