Hole in One Or...

[Slab]

Agree with earlier posts, most players will never get par or sub par round but like the handicap system almost every player has a chance at a hole in one each time they play (which might make it seem an easier achievement but to generalise a bit more, a player has roughly 14 chances to make eagle on a par 4/5 during each round but only roughly 4 to get a hole in one

Hole in one must be a better achievement (schoolboy logic)

 

[Hacker Khan]

Never had one so not overly bothered. May well change my mind if I change that but I'd rather have a low score and a handicap cut than one flukey shot amidst a decidedly average round and another 0.1 back

As there seems to be a lot of mention of hole in 1s being flukey, how are we defining flukey?

Flukey as in landed 10 yards right of the hole, hit a bank and then rolled in off the bank/thinned it and it was going 30 yards over the back until it hit the flag and dropped in the hole/never got more than 3 yards off the ground, clattered into the side of a bunker and rolled in.

Or flukey as in went in the air, landed on the green and rolled in, but as they are quite rare, it must have been a fluke?

If it's the first then that's not my experience of most hole in 1s. If it's the second then we are saying they are all flukes, and therefore that is a justification for not getting excited about one?

If anyone who has ever had one, especially for the first time, can honestly say it was no big deal and they would rather swap it for shooting 2 below their handicap on that round, then I'd like to hear it.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

As there seems to be a lot of mention of hole in 1s being flukey, how are we defining flukey?

Flukey as in landed 10 yards right of the hole, hit a bank and then rolled in off the bank/thinned it and it was going 30 yards over the back until it hit the flag and dropped in the hole/never got more than 3 yards off the ground, clattered into the side of a bunker and rolled in.

Or flukey as in went in the air, landed on the green and rolled in, but as they are quite rare, it must have been a fluke?

If it's the first then that's not my experience of most hole in 1s. If it's the second then we are saying they are all flukes, and therefore that is a justification for not getting excited about one?

If anyone who has ever had one, especially for the first time, can honestly say it was no big deal and they would rather swap it for shooting 2 below their handicap on that round, then I'd like to hear it.

I personal didn't said flukey, I said lucky and I stand by that. I base it on the fact that most people can't consistently get the ball on the green on a par 3, so to actually get it in the hole is lucky.