Thirty Years of Hurt

[cookelad]

Well maybe not hurt but, finally, after 34years of close calls, today on the 11th at Runcorn 130 yards wind into off the left, a flighted 8 iron, homing in all the way, and I have it, my first hole in one!

So happy that it was properly struck, just as I wanted, to a green where the bottom of the flag is visible from the tee so I could see it drop.

Hopefully the floodgates are now open

 

[rudebhoy]

Well done, it’s a great feeling!

 

[srixon 1]

Well maybe not hurt but, finally, after 34years of close calls, today on the 11th at Runcorn 130 yards wind into off the left, a flighted 8 iron, homing in all the way, and I have it, my first hole in one!

So happy that it was properly struck, just as I wanted, to a green where the bottom of the flag is visible from the tee so I could see it drop.

Hopefully the floodgates are now open

Well done. For a few rounds you’ll now be expecting one every time you play a par 3

 

[jim8flog]

Well done.

One of mine I never got to see due to very high grass between the tee and the green

 

[Old Boy]

Congratulations!

I can only imagine how you must have felt.

Started playing in 1970 and I'm still waiting. Any number of near misses but still no luck so I can only look on with envy.

 

[EastAngler]

Well done, they'll be like buses for you hopefully

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Congratulations!

I can only imagine how you must have felt.

Started playing in 1970 and I'm still waiting. Any number of near misses but still no luck so I can only look on with envy.

snap! Unfortunately. But there's still time; and the willingness and ability are still there.

 

[Old Boy]

snap! Unfortunately. But there's still time; and the willingness and ability are still there.

I'm afraid that at my age, 77, and riddled with arthritis if I am to ever get one it had better be soon.

 

[SocketRocket]

I'm afraid that at my age, 77, and riddled with arthritis if I am to ever get one it had better be soon.

I had my second one at 77

 

[rosecott]

I had my second one at 77

Had my last one - of four - in June last year aged 87. I wouldn't want it to be my last one.

 

[Old Boy]

Had my last one - of four - in June last year aged 87. I wouldn't want it to be my last one.

Don't think I could face another ten years of disappointment.