THERE’S one sure-fire way to turn a bad round into an unforgettable one – a hole-in-one.
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Of course, achieving that feat is far easier said than done.
Some golfers go through their entire lives never even coming close to an ace, some tell stories of that one magical shot where everything went right while others, well, they manage to get incredibly lucky more than once along the way.
Wentworth Golf Club’s Danny Ross, along with probably every other golfer in the world who hasn’t had an ace, assumed he was in the first category.
The 53-year-old 20-marker never come close in 15 years of playing the sport.
Until last Saturday.
He didn’t just come close either, he had his first hole-in-one.
After struggling his way through the opening five holes of last weekend’s individual stableford, Ross stepped up the tee on Wentworth’s 136 metre, par three sixth “hoping to stay out of the bunkers”.
He did that with a crisply-struck six iron, and then some.
“I was just hoping to get it up and over the bunkers,” he explained.
“I got it over and that’s when I lost sight of the ball, then the guys on the seventh tee started yelling and cheering, saying it had gone in.”
Ross admitted, while those players would have no reason to pull his leg, he wouldn’t let it sink in until he’d seen the ball at the bottom of the cup for himself.
“I didn’t believe it until I saw it myself, the closest I’d ever come was you know, several inches away,” he said.