Each week we write to Golf Canada members who record a hole-in-one, congratulating them and asking if they’d tell us how it happened. These are their stories (edited for length and clarity).
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Mike Steiner, Osprey Point Golf Course, Hole #8
I started golfing at 20 years old. Worked at a par 3 course and a two tier driving range called Pleasure Park. Got the golf bug from that day forward. I even met Moe Norman on many occasions and have a driver he gave me. I was playing with my best friend of 48 years, Larry Bermarn. I have played golf around the world and whenever I go on holidays I play a course: Iceland, Zanzibar, Africa, Sentosa, Singapore, and Dubai to name a few!
Have what I feel is one of the best golf man caves in my basement, a chipping and putting green in my backyard and I still was waiting for my first hole-in-one. I have hit the flag or an inch away five or six times.
Larry Berman got his hole-in-one at Thornhill on his 60th birthday. My birthday was on the 24th of January and we went on a golf cruise through the Caribbean. I was waiting for my birthday wish as well! I played eight courses in the Caribbean on a sail boat schooner from Kallos golf. Started in Dominican, Punta Espada, Corales, tooth of the dog. Finished at Point Hardy, St. Lucia Cabot.
Three weeks late but great belated birthday present! I also started a golf company four years ago and now distribute Vice golf in Canada and got my hole-in-one with a Vice lime green ball that I have been using for two years now.
185 yards into a very strong wind. We all were pretty sure it went in the hole but no one knew for sure. We walked up to the hole and the celebration began!
Maureen Yamashita, The Duke At Rancho El Dorado, Hole #16
It was a blind shot to a front pin about 143 yards away and I used a 7 wood. It was a good shot to the left of the pin and I did see it hop towards it but that’s all you can see as there is a low hill in front of the green. It was a ladies league game and I was playing with Ans Kirwin, Brenda Heibein and Jane Bjornstad. When we got to the green, we couldn’t see my ball but we all knew it was a good shot so Jane said, “let’s look in the hole,” and there it was! This is my fifth hole-in-one. Not bad for a 71-year-old!
Collin Wilson, Highland Pacific Golf, Hole #12
I was golfing with my friends Eric Druet and Jake Dogterom. The third hole on the highland side was playing 167 yards pin in the back right corner. I hit a full 8 iron. Landed about 16 inches long and right, then spun back into the hole.
Janice Scott, Campeche Country Club, Hole #6
Hole #6 at Campeche Country Club, El Delphin Golf Course was playing 131 yards on February 17, 2026. It is a challenging par 3 over a large gully with large sand traps on both sides of the green. I used a 5 wood. It was tracking nicely but I couldn’t see it go in, hence why I’m holding clubs in my hand. The first place I looked was in the hole. Lo and behold, there it was! My playing partners that day were Vivian, Norah and another Janice. We had a fun celebration after the round.
Shane Giddens, Rosedale Golf Club, Hole #16
This was my second hole-in-one in as many seasons, and the first I actually had the joy of watching disappear into the cup. What had been an otherwise mediocre late-season round with my good friend and Rosedale Golf Club host, Jon Moses and my brother, Mark Giddens, suddenly became a lot more memorable on the 16th tee.
I lasered 103 yards to a front pin just as Jon and my brother were reminiscing about their past aces, my brother noting that his only one had been witnessed by me when we were teenagers. Just like my first, I had a feeling something good was about to unfold as I teed up a Rosedale-crested Callaway “1893” ball I’d found in the rough a few holes earlier.
With attack wedge in hand, I flushed a shot that held its line perfectly into a light wind. It landed about a foot beyond the cup, checked, and began to trickle back. The three of us collectively willed it in, and then watched it drop.
If you asked me to design my perfect day, it might have looked a lot like this. With the hole-in-one ball tucked safely in my pocket for good luck, it later joined my family and me as we watched the Jay’s clinch the ALCS against Seattle, the perfect ending to an unforgettable day!
Lorraine Swanson, Hideaway Country Club, Hole #9
I started golfing at 25 years old at Teachers’ Goofy Golf Tournaments in Thompson, Manitoba and I got my first ever hole-in-one February 18th, 2026 at Hideaway Country Club, Fort Myers, Florida on the 9th hole, front center flag. It rolled off a slight knoll left to right as my husband and I drove up to the green via the cart path on the left commenting, “is it going in?” At the green, I couldn’t see it and I’m still not believing it! At the hole, I looked in and there it was. From 108 yards, I used my Taylormade 6 hybrid with a Srixon ball! Even now after the congratulations and letting Srixon know sending me dozen golf balls, I’m still surpised! I am telling everyone I had to keep up with my husband as he got his first ever hole-in-one September 1, 2025 at our home course, Kingsville Golf and Country Club, Kingsville, Ontario. (Titleist sent him a great bag tag!)
