Golf Canada Hole-In-One Report – Week of September 30, 2024

September 30, 2024

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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Graham Robertson, Cobble Beach Golf Links, Hole #14

My first hole-in-one! A five-iron, on the 172 yard, 14th hole at Cobble Beach. I knew it was a good shot but never saw it go in as it’s a blind shot, up hill over a bunker. As I got up to the green, there was a ball three feet from the flag. I assumed it was mine. I even joked about it being a gimme, but as I got closer to the ball, I saw it was a different ball, not mine. I then assumed I must have hit long so I started to look in the rough behind the hole. One of the guys said, “did you check the hole?” I looked in the hole and there was my beautiful golf ball at the bottom of the cup. After playing golf since 1977, this is my first ever! A surreal feeling, more stunned silent than celebrating like crazy. Wow.

Alana MacLeod, Digby Pines, Hole #2

I made the mistake of not taking the ball out of play and lost it in the woods on the fourth hole. When I played the next day, I found the sacred ball. It’s ready for a display case now. What a joyful exciting experience. I have golfed for 25 years and this is my first hole-in-one.

Janet Laus, St. Catharines Golf & Country Club, Hole #7

Was playing with Shane Davis and Ford Lake. The yardage was 110 and I used a Callaway 7 club.

Ron Kimmel, Blue Mountain Golf & Country Club, Hole #14

The most amazing thing is that my wife, Elaine, had a hole-in-one on the same hole earlier in the season in May. What are the odds, a husband and wife both having a hole in one on the same hole in the same season!

Peter MacLachlan, Willows Golf & Country Club, Hole #15

Bridges course, hole #6, 175 yards, 7 iron straight into the cup. Player partners, left to right in the picture were Kevin Eggum, Kevin Carswell, myself and Dean Proski.

Connor Raedeke, McKenzie Meadows Golf Club, Hole #15

I was playing with my buddies Bobby, Justen and Kyle at McKenzie Meadows. A course I’ve played many times. Nice little twilight round. The hole was playing 194 yards, a tad down wind. Hit a 7 iron that I thought was going to be just at the front of the green to a middle pin. I didn’t think it had a chance to get all the way to the pin but it was straight at it. I was last to walk up to the green thinking where is my ball. Bobby went and checked the cup and we all went wild. A few beverages followed after the round.

Lyndsey Teschke, RiverEdge Golf Club, Hole #4

It was quite a shocker when the ball disappeared. I didn’t believe it until I saw the ball in the cup. I was playing with my friends Sharon Owen and Caren Maurer (we play in the ladies league at RiverEdge). It was 110 yards and I hit my 7 iron. It was a tougher pin placement and the ball landed on the green on top of the hill and rolled towards the pin and disappeared! I actually had a shadow box made with the ball and scorecard too.

Owen Turner, Green Gables Golf Club, Hole #8

I went out after work with a few buddies, Mike and Sahib. It was a beautiful evening round with no wind. I decided to play from the white tees with them and on hole #8 I chose my trusty Gap wedge from about 130 yards to a front middle pin. I saw it tracking towards the hole and I knew it was close. As we drove up towards the green, I saw the ball pinned between the pin and the cup for my first career ace! The adrenaline was rushing throughout my body and I laid down on the green for a brief moment to take it all in. It was a phenomenal day as it was my first ever hole-in-one.

Kevin Meagher, Orchard Beach Golf & Country Club, Hole #4

The distance from the white tee to pin on that day was about 162 yards and I hit a 7 iron. My group consisted of Mike Morris, Wally Beck and Rick Hyle.