Archive for the ‘Golf Offbeat’ Category

August 10, 2008

Million to one by hitting two holes-in-one

Rember Allan Saylor?
He is the sixth-grader who recently got his first hole-in-one and it was only his third time golfing.
Move over Allan and make room for Harrison Woan.
Woan is a 13-year-old golf prodigy from Mawsley, Northamptonshire and he has recently beaten odds of almost a million to one by hitting two holes-in-one just a week […]

August 8, 2008

How old where you when you got your first hole-in-one?

How old where you when you got your first hole-in-one when you were golfing?
If you are anything like Allan Saylor, you were eleven and it was your third time golfing.
The sixth-grader fired the ace Wednesday on the 150-yard, par-3 sixth hole at the neighboring Mandan Municipal Golf Course, using a driver borrowed from his buddy.
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July 30, 2008

Golfer gets 2 holes-in-one in same round

 GAYLORD, Mich. - For somebody who’d been playing golf 50 years and never had a hole-in-one, Bob Hickey got the hang of it quickly. The 66-year-old Grayling man used a 7-iron to card his first-ever ace Thursday on the 167-yard 10th hole at Marsh Ridge in Gaylord. Then Hickey used an 8-iron to ace the […]