I'm grateful for this thread. I've been playing over 30 years and while I've been within a foot a couple times, that's it. I also have only witnessed 1 hole in one while playing. My girlfriend at the time, playing 120yd hole, hit a worm burner, never getting off the ground, but it rolled up and into the hole. The group on the next tee, as this was a tight course, started yelling/cheering. That's when I started saying to myself, unconventional golf, it may not look pretty, but it works for me. This was 25 years ago or so.
Good or bad, I play unconventional golf a few times a round and have really learned to embrace it.