re: OT golfers.....hole in one!

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I played every day for many a year. Hit a lot of good shots. Still have to be lucky. The par four one was late in the day. Wasn't even a pin in the hole. Now that is lucky.

Prefer my double-eagle over the hole-in-one.

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Wow, odds of a double-eagle (or albatross) where you ace a par 4 or make a 2 on a par 5 have been estimated to be over a million to one. A hole in one on a par 3 is estimated to be about 13000 to one for the average golfer.
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Wow, odds of a double-eagle (or albatross) where you ace a par 4 or make a 2 on a par 5 have been estimated to be over a million to one. A hole in one on a par 3 is estimated to be about 13000 to one for the average golfer.

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My high school teammate was playing in their club championship about 2 or 3 years after HS went into 18 (par 5) down 1. Hit driver 3 iron in for a double eagle in front of a ton of people to win by one. The guy he was playing with had a 1 shot lead going into 18 and lost making a birdie

Only made 1 but lucky it was right time. Won Mustang convertible . Kids too little for that so took cash. Always pulled for Hal Sutton but that Sunday I won more on golf course than he did.

I love telling this story. I've got two on the same hole, but only one counted. Par 3 #6 at Willowdale in Luling. First time I was in high school. Chunked my first shot in the water. Reteed and holed it.


Second time, I think 7 years later. Hit it right past the hole, bit, and backed in. Funny thing was I was playing with my brother and a good friend of ours both times.

I have 3! All in a 5 yr time span in college:

1st: 125 yd Wedge

2nd: 165 yd 6-iron

3rd: 110 yd SW

Haven't come real close since, going on 10 yrs.

Closest I have come was at Old Waverly about a month or two ago.

155 yard, 8 iron. Baby draw, big hop and rolled 3 inches short of the cup.

I played golf competively for 12 years and never had one.

Finally, my first and only hole in one came while I was in Fredricksburg, TX for a wedding. I went out to drink and shoot the shite with the other bridesmaid's husbands/boyfriends at the Lady Bird Johnson muni track. We were all hammered by the 13th hole. It was playing 135, I knocked a PW a couple feet past the hole and it spun back in. I was so drunk I finished my round with the hole in one ball. Luckily I didn't lose it.

It just shows how much luck is involved that my one and only hole in one came when I was so drunk I would have just been happy to hit the green.

Got one on Number 9 at the old Holiday City in Olive Branch, MS. Man, I miss that golf course. Left handed duck hook going over the water headed straight for the clubhouse which got straightened out by the wind sends the ball right back to the green rolling straight into the cup. Got a green acrylic "Number 1" with a hole in it in which to put the ball and my name in the paper.

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Had one on 17 at Shell Landing. 176 yards with a 5 iron. One hop and it disappeared in the hole. I thought it rolled off the back of the green. It was the only good shot I made that day.

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Pretty hole to get it on too!

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Didn't really think about it that way. Can't believe I aced a par four and made a 2 on a par five. I wonder what the odds of that happening would be?

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Well the odds of being struck by lighting are about the same as getting a double eagle (one in a million LINK /) so what you did would be close to impossible. Better stay out of the thunderstorms with your luck!