real life hole in ones

[donkeypuncherben]

So I was member at a private club before I moved to Germany. They had a nice system where when anyone got a hole in 1, you would be billed $250 and they would put a keg outside the next day with a sign congratulating you. This was nice because it avoided the player getting stuck with a huge bar bill, it also advertised to the other groups so people would know to congratulate you next time they saw you, etc. Also all the bigger morning groups would have a keg to hang around while they were waiting for their foursomes to come in and find out where the day's bets ended up.

Anyway early in my my second year there,there was a guy I had only played with once but several regulars in my group always rolled their eyes when his name was brought up. I come in to change out of my spikes after my round and he grabs me in the locker room and hands me a can of beer. Seems pretty nice right? Next day someone tells me hit a hole in one and was too cheap to pay the $250 and bought 8 cans of beer for the people he saw in the locker room and ran home as fast as possible afterward. It was not a club where anyone was worried about $250, he was just cheap.

Like others I have had some nice hole outs for eagles but never on a par 3. Seen 2 go in from my own group and once from a group in front of mine. Lipped out an of albatross once from about 230, but still waiting for my moment.

[blueorfe]

My only hole in one on a full sized course was at my local golf course - Cocks Moors Woods (yes it is really called that ) I don't think that it would pass the profanity filter if I were to recreate in this game 
It was on the 11th hole, which hole plays about 170 yards, slightly downhill: I was playing pretty well that day and selected a 7 iron. I was in a fourball and had the honor, I stepped up to my ball, made a funky swing and pretty much shanked it. The ball came out very low curving viciously from left to right, I thought that it was going to go through the green and possibly into the stream near the 18th tee.
But somehow it took one bounce, crashed into the pin and dropped for the ace! All I remember after that was running forward and rolling headfirst down the embankment at the front of the tee in celebration 
There was some begrudging congratulations from my buddies, but mostly it was a case of "you lucky basket"

I have had 14 aces on various pitch and putt courses, 7 at my local one, which was only a five minute walk from my house. I probably played more than a thousand rounds there between 1981 and 1996 when it closed.