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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Terry Laurin, Two Eagles Golf Course, Hole #6
I’ve been golfing since I was two years old and never had a hole-in-one until last year. Now, the first round of the year at Two Eagles Golf Course in West Kelowna, on hole #6 playing 147 yards. I hit a 9 iron and I could tell it was straight at the pin, but being an elevated green you can’t see the surface from the tee box. As we got up to the green, we all had a good idea where our balls were except we could only see three balls. Given mine was tracking well and there was a divot 8 feet from the hole I ran up, and there it was in the cup.
Justin Morris, Orangebrook Golf & Country Club, Hole #14
It’s safe to say that it was a good start to the season as it was my first round of the year. I was playing with my grandpa. 105 yards with a 56 degree. I am 17 and I have been golfing my whole life. I always told my parents that getting a hole-in-one is high on my bucket list but I definitely wasn’t expecting it this early! It was also a special moment to share with my grandpa who was so happy for me. Definitely a great moment we will both remember forever. Now I gotta get one on our own turf!
Susan Cowan, Desert Princess Golf Club, Hole #8
I was fortunate to achieve my first hole-in-one at the beautiful Desert Princess Golf Club in Palm Springs, California, where I have been a snowbird for the last 12 years. It took place on the par 3, Lagos course, 8th hole. It was a 104-yard shot with my 8 iron from a highly elevated tee box down to a valley and then up again to the white flag on the green. We all watched my ball hit the green and move forward into the hole, as did the group waiting on the tee and the surrounding residents on their patios. I was playing with my friend Debbie Cunningham from Calgary and two ladies visiting from Kansas. The weather was picture perfect, hot and sunny. We celebrated the occasion on the clubhouse patio, shortly thereafter. The club provided me with a lovely engraved medallion for my golf bag to commemorate the occasion.
Corey Butler, TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley, Hole #14
It was a guy’s golf trip with 16 buddies. Hit a pure 8 iron and it drew beautifully, landed just pass the rough onto the green and rolled on a path towards the hole. It kept rolling until it dropped down. We saw the entire flight. It was such a surreal moment.
Eric Yuzpe, Ballenlsles Country Club, Hole #6
It is truly one of the most cherished memories I now have.
I was playing that day with my mother-in-law Joy Fielding on the East Course at BallenIsles Country Club (formerly a PGA of America course). I was playing the golf tees 73.0/137. That day the 6th hole (190 yards) was playing 177 yards. Wind gently right to left. I hit a quite perfect 7-iron that on impact I only said,
“be good.” It was a high ball that drew gently and landed four feet in front of the hole. A member of the course staff was in his cart behind me and said, “that looks really good.” He waited and as I walked off the tee he drove up by the green (where I could not see him because the Carr oath is blocked out to the right by a tree and hedge line.
Joy and I both saw it bounce softly and roll. When the ball disappeared, I said it just had just settled behind the ridge.
As I walked toward the cart we saw the marshal walk up onto the green. Joy was incensed and asked what he was doing there. He just happened to be parked there, out of sight when it happened. He walked straight to the hole, peered down, turned down toward the tee and threw both of his arms in the air.
What happened next can only be described as a lunacy. I screamed and began running down the tee decks, along the grass and up onto the green where I almost tackled Mark Taylor (the marshal).
Paul Publow, Reunion Resort – Palmer Course, Hole #16
I registered my second hole-in-one on March 21st at Reunion Resort, Palmer Course, hole #16, par 3.
I used a 5 hybrid for the 155-yard shot, hitting the front of the green and rolling about 10 yards to the pin and into the hole. I was ecstatic with my luck. I am now working on my next one! Hit them long and straight.
