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mtsalmela80 Great Member

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So I got my first ever hole in one the other day. A PW on a short par 3, about 115. Never thought it would happen, ended up 2 over for the 9 holes.  Not another feeling quite like it. It's been a picture perfect week for golf in the northeast. Any other aces recently?

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Congrats! Still no aces here.

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4 minutes ago, jamo said:

Congrats! Still no aces here.

Ditto. :-( I gave you the award, too, @mtsalmela80.

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Congrats! 

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I have never had a hole in one "Ace" in 40 plus years of playing golf. I have had several eagles that I have holed out, from much greater distance than your average par 3. Yet the Ace still alludes me, and I feel like I'm running out of time. Congrats! 


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Congrats!!! Thats soooo cool!!! No ace for me either. Thought I had one once, even had a witness. Tee shot went right down the stick and into the hole only to somehow hop out and come to rest on the lip. 

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Congratulations - well done!

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Sweet!  Congrats to you!

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Congratulations!!  :beer:

No recent aces for me, although I had one last spring, and one more about 30 years before that.  Its a great feeling!

Dave

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Still no aces, but congratulations just the same!

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12 hours ago, jamo said:

Congrats! Still no aces here.

Me too - but I've only been playing about 45 years, so I'm hoping once I get some experience it will happen for me.
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Congrats!

I had one lip the cup a few years ago with @Jeremie Boop and @missitnoonan as my witnesses, but still no cigar. Whenever I hit the green on a par 3 and it doesn't go in the hole, I blame the green keeper for not putting the hole in the correct place. ;-)

 

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Congrats. No aces here, yet. I had an albatross this year, but while rare, I don't think it gets as much credit as a hole in one.

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10 minutes ago, kpaulhus said:

Congrats. No aces here, yet. I had an albatross this year, but while rare, I don't think it gets as much credit as a hole in one.

An albatross should get even more credit!  :dance:

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14 hours ago, mtsalmela80 said:

So I got my first ever hole in one the other day. A PW on a short par 3, about 115. Never thought it would happen, ended up 2 over for the 9 holes.  Not another feeling quite like it. It's been a picture perfect week for golf in the northeast. Any other aces recently?

Congrats!

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2 hours ago, kpaulhus said:

Congrats. No aces here, yet. I had an albatross this year, but while rare, I don't think it gets as much credit as a hole in one.

I feel like an albatross should get significantly more credit than a hole-in-one on a par 3. 

I had a near hole in 1 yesterday that got me thinking; I hit a maybe a 'decent' shot at best and as the ball in the air I was talking to myself "No!... stay out of the bunker... no!!!" and it JUST flew the elevated bunker (short right side of the green) and had a MIRACULOUS bounce that looks all sorts of wanky (it kicked hard forward/left) and rolled up right next to the pin. Within about a foot. I started thinking... if that s*** went in for a hole in one.... how would that make me feel? God only knows if I were playing in a group and that had happened I would have been ridiculed I'm sure for that luck haha.

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Thanks for all the congrats everyone. I hit the shot and my buddy was watching, I had time to walk up to see the green while it was up, and we saw it land, start towards the hole, slow, and I'm thinking "ok great birdie opportunity if not a gimme", then it just goes in.

Aces are strange, some guys have multiple, half a dozen or more, and they cannot break 90 on a good day. Then other top notch golfers never see one. It's certainly luck. The guy I play with who was also the witness has one himself a number of years back.

Shortly after the round I thought, "now just the albatross and I'll have em all". That might take a few more years, if ever...

The third guy who joined us kept saying, well that's an eagle as well. Technically I suppose he is correct but I don't think I'll count it as part of my eagles. Haven't had an eagle yet this year...

 

 

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