Have you ever witnessed a hole in one?

I've seen two. It's a pretty wild feeling seeing the ball fall.. roll a second or two, and just disappear.

The two I have witness were by average players, 10-12 handicaps, and was each their first ones. So it was kind of cool.

I am still waiting on my first one..

I just posted this in the other hole-in-one thread...

I once played golf with a guy that had just started. Like the guy had taken a couple lessons and hd played one 9-hole round in the previous month. We are halfway through the back 9. We are on a decent little par 3, about 165 from the tees we are playing. Ole boy pulls out his driver and proceeds to hit a worm burner that may be carried 80 yards. His ball takes the curves of the hill and finds the green, then follows the curves of the green like a putt, and falls in the hole. Uglies shot I have ever seen with one of the best finishes I have ever witnessed.

TL;DR: guy plays his first 18 hole round, uses his driver to putt from the tee box, and proceeds to shame the two guys he was playing with that have been playing their whole lives.

About a year ago, one of the guys i golf with aced one from about 155. Pretty small green with a front center hole location. Hit it a little long and spun it back right into the cup. It was beautiful.

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"Saw" one this past Wednesday. The hole isn't visible from the tee so it was one of those where you don't know it happened until you pulled up to the green.

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Similar story. Late in the evening and our group was nothing but guys 50 and over. A guy in my foursome hits a high fade with a 5i on 18 at the links. I have the best eyes in the group, and I tell the guy it probably went in. I mean, there was really nowhere else it could be. He is thinking it went over the back, but given the slope of the green and the high fade, there was no way the ball was over. It was in.

Oh, and I've seen 4 in disc golf. One was mine.

20ish. 9 of them were mine.

I've played a lot of golf over the years with good players.

Only seen 3 double eagles. One of them won a tournament for the guy who made it on the last hole

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About a year ago, one of the guys i golf with aced one from about 155. Pretty small green with a front center hole location. Hit it a little long and spun it back right into the cup. It was beautiful.

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That was how my one and only HIO happened. Of the two par 3's on the front nine of the course I grew up playing on, I consistently hit the first green, lipped out a couple times and hit the flagstick at least once. I almost never even ended up on the green on the second. Hell it was more common for me to end up in the water than on the green on the second par 3.

Well this one day (I was 13/14) playing with my dad and a couple of his friends I flushed a 9i from 165 out. The ball landed 2 feet in front of the hole, jumped 3-4 feet past it, and spun straight back into the cup. I was floored. If it wasn't for my dad and the other guys hollering, I may still be there just staring at it, not believing my eyes.

Luckily for me, I went right back to where I was after that round, and still almost never hit that damn green.

But did he use his own club?

Witnessed an ace on a par 4 in a scramble -- downhill shot that is blind from the tee so two of us rode up to see if the green was clear for a senior to hit from the senior tee. I believe it was about a 280 yd shot (all downhill) that hit about 40 yards short of the green and tracked all the way to the hole. Within a month the course added a bunker across the fairway about 45 yards in front of the green.

Also witnessed a "Couples" ace when a good play topped on off the tee into the water. He hit another and said "that's par" just after impact . . . and damned if it didn't one-hop into the hole from about 180 yards.

Witnessed my 8 year old daughter hit one in a father/child scramble. Not only did she hit one before I did, but she hasn't played since then ( about 7 years ago), but I've hit two since then.

Duh?