Thanks! I was playing in our play with the pro final tournament with Marty Cairns, Jay Lilge and Paul McGrath. I hit my pitching wedge in from 130 yards.

Thanks for your email congratulating me on my hole-in-one at Whispering Pines Golf & Country Club. For this hole-in-one, I used a Cleveland 3 wood, and the yardage was approximately 145. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon, and I was golfing with my husband, Wayne Simms, and our good friends, Ian and Debby Fraser. I was shocked when we went to the green as we did not see my ball roll into the hole, but it was straight up the centre of the fairway rolling towards the green. We were looking all around the sides of the green and then Ian Fraser decided to check the hole and there was my ball! It was a very exciting finish to a beautiful summer and golf season!

Thanks,

Carla Johanson

Thank you!

I feel blessed to get another hole-in-one this year as I got one last year at The Brush on number 13…which I understand just got ranked the hardest Par 3 (not sure if that is in Ontario or Canada).

This hole-in-one was on the 3rd hole from the blue tee box. The distance was about 145 yards, and I used a 7 iron. My playing partners that day were Christopher Northfield, Kelly Perrera and Tony Halovanic.

Have a great day and week!

Thank you for the acknowledgement. Much appreciated.

Fabian

Thank you for reaching out, it’s an accomplishment I’m pretty proud of!

Here are the details you requested:

– Who were you playing with? Marco Landry, Eric Moffette and Don Borne

– What was the yardage, and what club did you use? 137 and I used my 5 hybrid

Regards,

Jacey

I stepped up to the blue box on hole #17 and rang out the yardage as 160 playing 155. I clipped a solid 8 iron towards the green. It was right on line and Merman (Murray) said, “JVD that’s a good looking shot and tracking”, as Jordan said, “that’s going to go in!” I said, “it’s close but not going in!” Well, the flag was center and about 15 feet in as it hit the fringe, rolled directly at the flag, and dropped. We erupted in laughter, smiles and high fives as Dave yelled out, “that’s the first hole-in-one I’ve ever witnessed.” On to #18 we went and as we finished, Murray said, jeez and shook his head as I laughed and told the group I used the same ball to finish the round as we headed in and celebrate my third hole-in-one inside a 40-year career. Oddly, the ball I used was a number “3” and brand I never use.

Best part of this hole-in-one: being at my home course and surrounded by really good friends who shared in a fun and special moment in time, as well as a few libations. 

Fun facts: 

– Jordan had a hole-in-one on the same hole four weeks prior to mine.

– Dave played with a fellow who aced one the following Wednesday and there were two aces that Men’s night (now Dave has seen two aces inside a week).

– I’m not an angry golfer, but I have to admit I did rip my card in half on the hole prior to my hole-in-one after my second double. When I presented it to Ethan, our junior pro, he said, “I’m pretty sure we never seen that before” as we laughed.  

Take care,

JVD

Thank you for reaching out and for providing that awesome graphic! It was a very exciting moment and happens to be my second one this season! I had my first one on a golf trip to San Diego back in April, and sure enough I end up with a second one last week. They are the first two I have ever had and somehow, they end up occurring in the same season.

It was the first day of Fall and it sure felt like it with the 12-degree temperature and 50km/h winds. I was playing with two of my closest friends, who are also members at Wildwinds, Navid Kazemeini and Brendan Woods. The wind was blowing from left to right. We lasered the pin at 188 yards, which was at the back-centre of the green. I hit a flighted 6 iron, trying to keep it low in the wind, it started out going left and turned back with the wind pushing it right back towards the hole. The ball landed on the front left of the green, took a big first bounce, then settled on the second bounce and spun right towards the hole and then disappeared! I jumped with excitement thinking it may have gone in, but being members at Wildwinds, we all knew that it was more likely to have gone over the green into the bunker, which is usually what happens when you go at the back pin on hole #5. As we got closer to the green and the back bunker became visible, there was no ball to be seen and reality was beginning to set in. Sure enough, the ball was right in the hole and celebration ensued (sorry to the guys hitting shots on holes around us).

On September 5, 2022, I aced the 17th hole at Rebel Creek Golf Club in Petersburg, ON. I used my 9-iron for this 141-yard shot. This was my first hole-in-one, and with my 70th birthday coming up in two months, I was wondering if I’d ever achieve the feat before I died.

I didn’t die, but my wife almost did when she saw the clubhouse tab. Unfortunately for me, it was during our Labour Day Classic, so there were lots of members there that day. Regardless, it was the highlight of my golf career.

Regards,

Len Esposito

Hi,

I was playing with fellow golfer, Yvon Dumoulin. It was only my second round with my new set of Callaway Rogue ST Max OS irons. The 17th hole, our 8th hole as there is a Friday crossover, was playing 139 yards with a strong head wind, indirectly caused by Fiona in the east. I hit a high 6 iron that bounced and started to roll towards the pin. I thought it was a good shot and stopped watching it, but Yvon said it had gone in. I wasn’t convinced until I walked up to the pin.

It was my third hole-in-one, but the first late enough in the day for the bar to be open. Our hole-in-one insurance paid off.

Regards.

Paul Goyetche

Thank you very much for your email.

I was playing that day with three guys in the Brooklea Senior Men’s League which I joined for the first time this year: John Young, Jim Goom and Paul Muldoon. We arrived at the 7th hole which is a medium length par 3 which crosses a bit of a ravine to a fairly wide green with a bunker protecting the left side and a bit of a hump between it and the green. This day the flag was tucked in behind that hump on the left and was a bit over 140 yards away. There was also about a 15 to 20 km/hr wind coming pretty much straight at us so rather than play my usual 9 iron, I opted to go up to the 8. Both Paul and I were ready on the tee chatting a bit about the pin placement and how it was a sucker pin, so you don’t want to go straight at it. I suggested that I would go first and give him a target. Paul half-jokingly said that all I needed to do was aim at the fat of the green with a little draw toward the pin. So, I set up and hit my shot and, sure enough, it started about 15 feet right of the pin and started drawing in toward it.  When it landed, it seemed to have just cleared the hump in front of the pin and then we couldn’t see where it ended up. The rest of the guys hit their shots and we proceeded to the green. When we got there, we quickly found the other three balls but didn’t see mine. I figured it must have rolled right through and was hiding in the rough behind the green so John and I looked and couldn’t find it so then John suggested we should look in the cup. I said yeah, let’s make sure it’s not there but when we got there, it was nicely resting in the bottom. What a surprise and thrill we all got!

There is also a little bit of back story I would like to share with you. My dad passed away about four months ago and he loved the game of golf. Although he took me and my brothers out a couple of times as kids, I never took much interest in the game until I was nearly 50. My dad introduced his dad to the game at about the same age and he was able to have more than one hole-in-one during his time with the game. So, when I did take up the game a bit, he would ask me any time I was out whether I got a hole-in-one yet like his dad. Unfortunately, it never happened while he was alive but a couple of days before he died, I told him I was going to get one for him and if I did, I would know he was up there helping me out. Dad’s birthday was September 19th, and I couldn’t play that day, but it was only two days later that this happened, and it just seems incredibly fitting. So, this one’s for you dad.

Gratefully,

Rick Ferguson

I was playing in our club championship. Yardage was around 145 with the wind in the face so I hit a three-quarter 8 iron to keep it a little lower. My first ever hole-in-one.