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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Zheran Yu, Willow Valley Golf Club, Hole #8
I was playing with one gentleman named Nick Zhang. It was around 100 yards from the blue tee with a front pin. I used my gap wedge.
Val Ziegeman, Ivey Ranch Country Club, Hole #2
Hole #2 at Ivey Ranch. Playing alongside my husband Norm along with my neighbours Maury and Joan.
Pavel Racu, Scarlett Woods Golf Club, Hole #9
I was with my friend Ken, it was just about high noon, yardage was 182. I hit the lucky number 7 iron using a Lynx four ball and will spend the rest of my life chasing that feeling.
Nick Withers, Gorge Vale Golf Club, Hole #2
It was a beautiful Victoria late afternoon after a long Monday at the home office. A little cool at 10 degrees Celsius or so but rain had subsided from previous days and decided to get a quick nine holes with my wife, teeing off without any range or putts after a two week hiatus from golf. Made a good up and down for a par on hole #1 and headed to the par 3, 155 yard, hole #2 on the Gorge Vale course. It was a beautiful hole with a gentle breeze into us. As I hadn’t warmed up, I took an extra club, 7 iron, and hit my lefty draw but a little thin. I uttered some gentle encouragement for it to go and saw it cover the water but then lost sight of my yellow ProV1x that I prefer for Fall golf. I figured the ball was just past the flag which was why I couldn’t see it, (that and the fact my vision isn’t what it once was, even with glasses!) As I strolled down to my wife’s tee box, I looked and couldn’t see the ball behind the flag so I took out my phone and recorded my stroll to the hole where I confirmed the hole-in-one. Number one for me and a wonderful memory for sure! And it continued with a good nine from there, finishing just before darkness at one under for the nine holes, my personal best. Of course a hole-in-one helped with that!
John Krasevec, Las Vegas Country Club, Hole #3
We were in Las Vegas for a “Clublink goes to Vegas” trip. There were 110 of us there for the four-day tournament. This was our first round of the week. The hole was playing 155 yards. I used a 6 iron.
Dixie Haley, Marina Mazatlan Golf Course, Hole #6
It was a very exciting day to have a hole-in-one! I had one before at the P.E.I. amateur a few year’s back. My playing partner was Deric Stucker. The yardage was 83. The club I used was a Cobra pitching wedge.
Gerry Risi, Silver Lakes Golf & Country Club, Hole #17
I was playing with Peter Dunn, Stacy McGann and Jamie Mathieson. On hole #17, which is a par 3, the yardage was 148. I used a 4 hybrid.
Theresa Walterhouse, Verde River Golf Club, Hole #5
It was exciting but also a bit surreal! I was playing with Rob Burkart. I can’t remember the exact yardage but I think it was likely about 90 yards or so, pin position in a bowl right after some bunkers. So it is a bit of a tricky shot because if you are short you are in the bunkers, if you are long, you are in the back bunkers. And interestingly, if you are above the hole you are fine but it will funnel down and almost always go well past the pin to the bottom of the bowl, very difficult to make that putt from above the hole. So I played a pitching wedge as I didn’t want to be too long into the back bunkers and purposely landed well past and a bit right of those bunkers/bowl, (actually executed what i intended.) It hit the perfect spot and then caught the top of the bowl and funnelled left all along the top ridge of the bowl until it eventually came down the bowl on the left side right above the flag and into the hole. I was just extremely happy that I caught the bowl and it was going to funnel down. I’d rather be below the flag trying to make that putt, but to have it go in was a total shock. Rob and I were on separate tee boxes, they were lateral, and I yelled over at him, “I think that went in the hole” and he thought it did too, couple behind us heard us. Didn’t see the shot but saw me pull it out of the hole when I was on the green. In fact the couple who witnessed it we chatted with a few holes later and they thought maybe I had a few hole-in-one’s before because we were so calm. Not the case, it was my first!
Michael Peter, Pine Ridge Golf Course, Hole #16
Got a hole-in-one at Pine Ridge Golf Course. It was hole #16, a par 3 playing 165 yards. Hit an 8 iron to a blind pin. Driving up to the green we couldn’t see the ball so we instantly knew that it was in the hole!
Michael Gatens, Miramont Country Club, Hole #4
The pin was back left at 136 yards. I hit 8-iron from white tee’s, hit behind the hole, caught the slope and rolled back into hole. Was playing with two members from my regular old-guy’s group. The club made a nice plaque for me.