Hole in one - or not?

[Imurg]

Thinking about this I'm not convinced........
What constitutes a golf hole..? A teeing area, a green and a hole.
Doesn't say how long it should be.
Would a Hi1 on a 20 yard hole be considered? If it has a teeing are, a green and a hole then it must be..right?
Not really.....so length isn’t the deciding factor. Otherwise you could make a hole in your back garden and get hundreds....
For me....if the hole is on a course that is measured and has a rating (or SSS if it was a few years back) then it counts.
I think that's a sensible place to draw the line. Again, the length doesn't matter.
But you local fun par 3 course isn't where you get a real Hole in 1...in my opinion.....others may vary

 

[rosecott]

The "was it in an official comp?" crew will along shortly! Then there's the hierarchy of medal over stableford etc etc

Perhaps Club Systems and Boss watches got it right when they laid down their conditions for the award of a Boss watch for a Hole in One:

"The Hole-In-One must have been scored in a singles handicap qualifying, club competition, sorry no general play scores, better-balls, matchplay or greensomes etc. "

 

[Albo]

Thinking about this I'm not convinced........
What constitutes a golf hole..? A teeing area, a green and a hole.
Doesn't say how long it should be.
Would a Hi1 on a 20 yard hole be considered? If it has a teeing are, a green and a hole then it must be..right?
Not really.....so length isn’t the deciding factor. Otherwise you could make a hole in your back garden and get hundreds....
For me....if the hole is on a course that is measured and has a rating (or SSS if it was a few years back) then it counts.
I think that's a sensible place to draw the line. Again, the length doesn't matter.
But you local fun par 3 course isn't where you get a real Hole in 1...in my opinion.....others may vary

That’s where my head was originally on it.
I’m thankful that I already have one on a full course so it’s not as much of an issue either way.
In my mind it is a hole in one, but it’s a hole in one on a par 3 course. Oddly enough the measured tee marker was only 7 yards shorter than the HiO I got on a full course.
Happy to have differing opinions on this one

 

[bladeplayer]

HIO. It's count!

PS bladeplayer 5.12 AM !!!!! Early t time today?

Steroid injection yesterday ? im blaming that . Wide awake ? we closed all weekend courses frozen over

 

[Mel Smooth]

If I had one on our par 3 course, it would be classed as a hole in one, cos there's not much chance of me getting one in the championship course, 3 of the 4 are woods for most players.
The par 3 course is actually par 30 with three par 4's, but all bar one of the par 3's are over 100 yards, most are probably around 120/130, and one of them is 180 uphill into a prevailing wind.
If you had a hole in one on the 3rd hole at Torrequebrada - without doubt a well regarded course - it would still count as a hole in one, even though the hole itself is a bit mickey mouse, measuring only 75 metres.
So yeah, you had a hole in one.

 

[IanMcC]

I would say if the course is rated, its a HI1.
Otherwise, I wouldnt count it for myself, but would not begrudge anyone counting it.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

In our roll up yesterday I holed a tee shot pitch on a 49yd temporary 17th hole being played from a mat to a temporary green. Because of the work being done on this and on our 14th hole, our Back 9 is currently not a qualifying course.

I haven‘t had a HI1 in my 50yrs playing, and few (those wanting a bottle of whisky from me on the bar) if any thought that what I’d done really counted. Btw - we were still scoring the hole as a par4, though we have decided that we don’t take the shot normally given for most, so I guess I maybe also got an albatross…and in those 50yrs I haven’t had one of them either. But no. ?

 

[Slab]

If its the first stroke on a hole that's part of a course that's been rated as a golf course then it's a hole in one, anything else is just a hole in the ground

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Whi

If its the first stroke on a hole that's part of a course that's been rated as a golf course then it's a hole in one, anything else is just a hole in the ground

And that means my 49yder on Saturday don’t count as a ‘proper’ one. Which is what I’d rather prefer…but I’ll keep the albatross ???