Making matters even better, a rules official making final preparations for the tournament witnessed the whole thing and corroborated the hole-in-one for the sceptical online masses.
On Thursday the golf YouTuber went deservedly viral when he hit his second hole-in-one on par 4, getting an incredible kick n’ roll on a 320-metre ace heard around the world. Watch it and weep.
Woods was hosting his TGR Jr Invitational at The Hay, the Pebble Beach Par 3 course he designed a few years ago, when the magic happened with a boy named Holden Bautista.
Sharon Lowden lived out every golfer’s dream by acing the par-3 15th hole. But it was only a couple of hours later the same feat would be achieved again… by her husband!
Travis Smyth, the 28-year-old Asian Tour pro from Kiama in New South Wales who played part of last year on LIV Golf, may not claim the claret jug this year, but he can always claim a Hoylake tournament first.
Power became the fifth Irishman ever to have a hole-in-one in the Par 3 Contest after Darren Clarke (2001, second hole), Pádraig Harrington (2006, ninth), Graeme McDowell (2010, ninth) and Shane Lowry (2019, second), and he is just the fourth player ever to have two holes-in-one in the same Par 3 Contest.
Rickie Fowler gets applause from the crowds at the WM Phoenix Open simple by throwing a few blades of grass in the air, he’s that much a fan favourite in the Arizona desert. So imagine what the reaction would be if he were to make a hole in one on one of the par 3s at TPC Scottsdale?
When John Key stunned everyone by stepping down as New Zealand Prime Minister in 2016, we (kinda) jokingly speculated he was doing it to play more golf.
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