For a few years the closest I'd had to an Eagle was two shots and a putt on a par 5, unfortunately I was playing three of the tee.On a practice knock on Tuesday I duffed my second shot so threw another ball down for a Mulligan and holed it from 130 yards - can I count that one?
. Gleneagles, King's Course, 14th. Drove the green, big help from the downslope and firm fairway. Drained a long putt 
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Had one just recently - a short par four holing out from about 75yrs from trees pitching down and across a quite long, steep and tricky slope to the green. My objective was to get out of the trees and on to the green, if possible the half of the green where the flag was situated. That it went in...well...no luck getting it on the green, but a bit of luck that it was the right bit of the green - that it went in...
Assuming he is using years as a measure of distance, 75 light years is also the longest hole in one ever.
Genuine question, how do you know? Do you keep a record of all your scores/rounds?
Where I used to play you'd get 50% of the 2s pot for a HIO regardless of how many 2s there were, unless you had the misfortune of someone else getting one on the same comp.
Steve is the Forum's Matt Fitz.....every shot logged from every round since Adam was a lad...total nerd but much respectGenuine question, how do you know? Do you keep a record of all your scores/rounds?
Where I used to play you'd get 50% of the 2s pot for a HIO regardless of how many 2s there were, unless you had the misfortune of someone else getting one on the same comp.
I've gone for over 50, really no idea how many I've had.
Of my memberships -
Aldersey had two driveable par 4s and a couple of fairly reachable par 5s,
Shooters Hill had a very driveable par 4 (came within an inch of an albatross/HIO there!) and an easily reachable par 5.
Wroclaw has a driveable par 4, and a couple of reachable par 5s (and I holed a 6iron from the fairway on the SI.1 hole for my first 5pointer in decades!),
Gradi had a few driveable par4s and easily reachable 5s - though I did get an albatross on the one I would say wasn't reachable except in favourable conditions, played my second from the adjacent fairway, couldn't see the green so picked a tree to go over and hit a 4wood as hard as I could, got to the green couldn't find it, looked everywhere, then joked "I'll check the hole LOL!" and there it was.
Runcorn only really one driveable par 4. plus my HIO
Attached is a yearly summary of all the games I've played from 1st Jan 1977.Genuine question, how do you know? Do you keep a record of all your scores/rounds?
Where I used to play you'd get 50% of the 2s pot for a HIO regardless of how many 2s there were, unless you had the misfortune of someone else getting one on the same comp.
I've gone for over 50, really no idea how many I've had.
Of my memberships -
Aldersey had two driveable par 4s and a couple of fairly reachable par 5s,
Shooters Hill had a very driveable par 4 (came within an inch of an albatross/HIO there!) and an easily reachable par 5.
Wroclaw has a driveable par 4, and a couple of reachable par 5s (and I holed a 6iron from the fairway on the SI.1 hole for my first 5pointer in decades!),
Gradi had a few driveable par4s and easily reachable 5s - though I did get an albatross on the one I would say wasn't reachable except in favourable conditions, played my second from the adjacent fairway, couldn't see the green so picked a tree to go over and hit a 4wood as hard as I could, got to the green couldn't find it, looked everywhere, then joked "I'll check the hole LOL!" and there it was.
Runcorn only really one driveable par 4. plus my HIO
, It's a relatively short par 5, a tricky drive, but if you cut the dog leg by going close or over to the trees on the left, it's a great risk and reward par 5 )
9 eagles this year already? Does your course have multiple drivable par 4’s, short par 5’s or do you just hit it miles?
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