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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Robert Boffa, Equinelle, Hole #3
This year is my second year playing golf and this was my first hole-in-one. When I struck the ball, it felt like I hit it well and the ball was going right for the pin. The hole was 175 yards and I used a 3 iron. The two people who were golfing with me were Jim Parsons and Steve Eardley. Both got really excited and told me that the ball was in the hole. I did not believe them at first, as I thought it had hit the stick and continued off the back of the green. As we walked up to the hole I did not see my ball anywhere in view, I looked in the hole and there it was. I was thrilled that I got a hole-in-one and happy that my two good friends witnessed it.
John Taylor, The Hamptons Golf Club, Hole #5
I was playing with Mark Brown, Paul Toye and Rajeev Shinde. These are three friends I have played with almost every weekend for the past decade. My shot was at the Hamptons Golf Club on hole #5. It was 141 yards with a six iron.
Exactly two years and three months earlier I had to give up golf for a knee replacement. The very first game I missed after this surgery had Rajeev hitting his first hole-in-one at the Hamptons Golf Club on hole #12. I recall how disappointed I was in missing that shot. I had never seen a hole-in-one before.
I can tell you that watching a hole-in-one shot get drained is fun. Even more fun with great friends and an absolute blast when its actually your own ball that goes in.
Peter Enright, The Okanagan Golf Club, Hole #4
I got my first hole-in-one on hole #4 on the Quail course at the Okanagan Golf Club in Kelowna, B.C. It was 156 yards to the pin and I used a 7 iron!
Sienna Harder, Riverway Public Golf Course, Hole #11
I was playing with SFU, HPU and WWU. The yardage was 145 and I used a 7 iron. Thank you so much for recognizing this, I really appreciate it!
Grant Mckay, Mitchell Golf & Country Club, Hole #3
Played with Jeff Otten and Kerry Hahn. The hole was 140 yards and I used a Ping i525 9 iron.
Jeff Dicer, Vulcan Golf & Country Club, Hole #16
Finally after trying for fifty years I finally aced a hole. Vulcan Golf & Country Club in Alberta on hole #16. 160 yard par 3 and I hit a smooth 8 iron. My last game this year, couldn’t think of a better way to finish 2024.
Alexandra Medeiros, Cherry Hill Club, Hole #16
Very exciting stuff! I was playing with Franco Pace and Alex Dumais. Yardage was 92 and the club was a three-quarter 9 iron.
Graham Hill, Sand Valley Golf Resort, Hole #17
Sand Valley Golf Resort, hole #17 from 225 yards with a 5 iron. I was with playing with Heath McCormick, Tyler Yates and Eric Pattenaude. We have an annual golf trip of eight and we move it around to different spots in Canada and the United States. The names of the guys in the group from left to right in the photo is Brad Giancarlo, Chris Wert, Aaron Pedlar, Eric Pattenaude, Graham Hill, Tyler Casselman, Heath McCormick and Tyler Yates.
Kadra Ben, Fox Creek Golf Club, Hole #2
I am a member of Fox Creek Golf in Dieppe, N.B. and I made a hole-in-one on a Friday at hole #2.
Doug Stoddart, Harvest Golf Course, Hole #11
My final swing of the season at Harvest Golf Course in Kelowna resulted in a hole-in-one! My final putt of the season resulted in a 40 foot birdie putt. Three under on my final two holes!
I played in Harvest’s year-end Ironman game. The course closed for the year after the Ironman game. It was a shotgun start. My group started on hole #12. Therefore we ended the round on hole #11, a par 3 where I scored a hole-in-one. The previous hole #10 I sunk a 40 foot putt for a birdie. On the #11 tee box, the group enjoyed a shot of birdie juice just before my hole-in-one.
Caroline Abbenbroek, The Toronto Hunt, Hole #12
The hole-in-one was certainly an epic day for me. I’m a hack golfer at best, I’ve only been recording scores for a few years in an effort to develop a handicap. The ace was a complete surprise for me, and a memorable day for sure. I was playing with Margot and Heather Ritchie, members of the Toronto Hunt that I had not met previously, so it was very exciting to have them with me to witness it. It was the Toronto Hunt’s hole #3, a par 3, the range finder showed 132 yards (slightly uphill), middle pin placement, so I used a 3 wood. I saw that it was going left of the pin, but bounced to the right and rolled ever so nicely into the hole. I was completely shocked to see it actually go in!