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2004-07-04 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Read it and weep: 517 yd Ace dead solid perfect
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Posted by .com 2004-07-04 02:42|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Sure, the hidden ball trick, right?
Posted by Capt America  2004-07-04 3:17:16 AM|| [http://captamerica.blogspot.com/]  2004-07-04 3:17:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Golf is a fine walk ruined."

- Mark Twain -
Posted by Zenster 2004-07-04 3:31:50 AM||   2004-07-04 3:31:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 517 yards? Yeah, right. Who does this guy think he is, Kim Il Sung?
Posted by CRS  2004-07-04 8:24:49 AM||   2004-07-04 8:24:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "Take dead aim."
--Harvey Penick
Posted by Quana  2004-07-04 8:38:22 AM||   2004-07-04 8:38:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Well,I hit an errant shot that bounced off an air conditioner,a glass sliding door,and took a seven on the par three.
Posted by rich woods  2004-07-04 9:13:07 AM||   2004-07-04 9:13:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, this was in Denver. The air is thinner there, so the ball would go farther. And if a really strong gust came in at the right moment, it could go that far I suppose. Also take into account the fact that if the angle was right, the ball would have rolled on the ground a long time.
Posted by Charles  2004-07-04 10:02:49 AM||   2004-07-04 10:02:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Happy Gilmore lives.
Posted by Chris W.  2004-07-04 10:14:02 AM||   2004-07-04 10:14:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Question #1. Is the hole a sharp dogleg that runs down hill? Over an out of bounds area? A true "risk and reward" hole? Was there water involved? It says a marshy area so maybe it was?

I see several things wrong with this. 1) The penalty for a lost ball is always stroke and distance. he should of gone back to the tee and hit again hitting 3 (the exceptions for this are water hazards). @) Did he have any Identifying marks on his ball? Initials or some other such thing? If he did no doubt about it. Besides he's not the first guy to ace a par five. A club pro in England did a few years back the same day the clubs women pro shot a 2 (albatross) on the ifrst hole at the club (par 5, 90d dogleg, downhill with an OOB area that they had to drive over. So it can be done.

The only questio out there is just what title do you give this feat. 2 under is eagle, 3 under is albatross. $ under I IIRC they were talking about calling a condor to stick with avian names

As an aside a friend of mine had an "Ace" at one of the local clubs by putting the ball into the hole on the wrong hole with an errant drive. And that was an much tougher shot than the way the hole is normally played
Posted by cheaderhead 2004-07-04 10:23:05 AM||   2004-07-04 10:23:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Big Bertha. Wasn't that an artillery piece. I woulda used a mortar myself.
Posted by Zpaz  2004-07-04 11:59:52 AM||   2004-07-04 11:59:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Conditions:

Hot
Dry
Windy (30mph Tailwind)
Thin air (Denver, probably closer to 6000 ft)

Clubs:

Ball designed to fly.
Using composite specialty drivers.

Course:
Some downhill, and a dogleg, which was described as a "sharp right" after the swampy area. Rough described as "very shaort" - and Colorado is in a drought last several years including last year when this guy hit it, so it probably was very hard ground (meaning a lot of roll and very little bite).

Golfer:
The guy usually hits 250-300 on his drives and is a 4 handicapper so he hits straight.

That takes care of the drive - yep he may have hit it 350+ on the fly in those conditions, and the dogleg cuts the 517 down.

Then, to top it off, they think he hit one of the CONCRETE yardage markers - which, after a huge drive, would cause the ball to really bounce a LOOOONG ways.

So given all those conditions and a bit of luck (the yardage markers), its not impossible to ace a 500 yarder. But its still incredible.
Posted by OldSpook 2004-07-04 12:10:15 PM||   2004-07-04 12:10:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I'd be suspicious about this if the guy they waved through and who was 'ahead' of them and who didn't see anything, was a doctor or a lawyer or somesuch. But you can't find a person more honest and reliable than a groundskeeper (see Bill Murry in Caddyshack), even if you can't remember his name. I'm sure the ball couldn't have landed near him while he was right around the corner of the dogleg, just out of sight, and he didn't pick it up, hop into his golf cart, and put it in the hole. A groundskeeper would never do anything like that. Just about anybody else might (though he would have to be extremely deviant and evil) but not a groundskeeper, being so in touch with nature and the land, and being bound by the Groundskeepers Oath of Conduct and such.
/facetiousness off
Posted by Meester Feester 2004-07-04 2:05:04 PM||   2004-07-04 2:05:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 So, what's the big deal?
Posted by Admiral A Sheppard 2004-07-04 2:14:48 PM||   2004-07-04 2:14:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 No offence against Groundskeepers.
Posted by Meester Feester 2004-07-04 2:21:20 PM||   2004-07-04 2:21:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 one can only be skeptical about a "sport" that attracts such a high percentage of lawyers and stockbrokers......
Posted by Anonymous5538 2004-07-04 3:34:32 PM||   2004-07-04 3:34:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 OldSpook ...why do I get the sense that you have played golf before?
Posted by Dragon Fly  2004-07-04 9:13:41 PM||   2004-07-04 9:13:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 who gives a sh*t, 3 dudes swore he did it, good enough for me.
Posted by Jarhead 2004-07-04 9:49:39 PM||   2004-07-04 9:49:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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