Most golfers dream of scoring a hole-in-one on any par 3. Golf course designer Jay Blasi did one better. Blasi, who serves on Golfweek’s Best architectural advisory panel and often hosts course-rating events, used driver to ace the short, downhill par-4 14th of Mammoth Dunes at Sand Valley Resort in Wisconsin. The hole tips out…
You’ve read about all kinds of hole-in-one stories. This might be a new one: a married couple each aced the same hole in the same round. Yea, it happened. Ann and Bill Gray were playing Capital Canyon Club in Prescott, Arizona, on July 10 when they got to the 16th hole during their afternoon round….
This was the sixth hole-in-one in my life so far. On Wednesday, June 12, 2024 which was ladies night, I played with another three Chinese ladies, they were Xiaoyin Qiu, Ruixue Huang and Jenny Yan. On hole #7, the flag was on the front, the distance was 107 yards, a bit uphill, between the tee…
Beauty day, calm, no wind, Saturday evening round. Hole #6, 125 yards with a pitching wedge. It never left the flag; dunked straight in! As a former university basketball player and now coach of my daughter’s Etobicoke Thunder U16 basketball team I liked seeing it go straight in the cup, “swish!” I went nuts and…
A hole-in-one is one of the greatest shots in golf. A hole-in-one on a par 4? Even better. That’s what Timmy Crawford did Saturday. He Monday qualified into this week’s Korn Ferry Tour event, The Ascendant at TPC Colorado. Come Saturday morning after making the cut, he hit the best shot of his life. Crawford…
STATELINE, Nev. — His fifth career ace came at a perfect time for Tim Brown: on a course next to a lake. The former Los Angeles Raiders receiver made a hole-in-one on hole No. 12 Friday at the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe. He didn’t realize it was in the hole…
It was a special moment for sure! Unbeknownst to me, an old friend and colleague of my father recently joined our club ( Oshawa Golf & Country Club), during a spring kick-off event where my father was a guest, we ran into each other at the turn. After some quick catching-up, we instantly scheduled a…
Sepp Straka had a hole-in-one on the par-3 ninth hole at Pinehurst No. 2 on Friday and that was no doubt cool to see. But Franceso Molinari one-upped him late in the day. Playing the back nine first, Molinari stood on the tee box on the ninth hole, which was playing 194 yards, at 7…
We have seen a few great examples of players trying to take the incredibly tough greens at Pinehurst No 2 out of play, but few came off like this Sepp Straka ace. Teeing off at the Par 3 No 9 at Pinehurst No 2, Straka made perfect contact and the ball dropped onto the green,…
Jordan Spieth has revealed that the Titleist T100 7-iron he used to hit a hole-in-one at the Texas Open was the only new club in his bag. Spieth’s ace has to go down as one of the finest we’ve seen for some time for the contact he makes and the perfect line of the shot….
