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Love this thread idea, and I'll definitely be contributing.

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8" is the closest for me 2 seasons ago but I think this year I'll be a major contributor to this thread. 🙄

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I don't have any pictures, but I'm aceless and have been playing around 7 years now.  It took my dad about 30 years to get his one and only ace.

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52 minutes ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

Great so now I need to add a tape measure in my bag. But I know the day I finally get one it will be early Sunday morning and playing by myself and no witnesses. That will be the ultimate kick in the pants. But at least I'll know I finally did it.  

It would probably be a jinx, but you could use a Sharpie to put 6" marks on your putter shaft in lieu of a tape measure. 😀

I have two close calls: the first was in my league, about 160 yards, ball came up one revolution short. The second one I didn't see, but it had to be close. Uphill, so the surface of the green was not visible, 180ish. Got there and my ball mark was a few inches in front of the pin, the ball was a few inches behind, and a straight line between them went through the center of the cup.

I have to admit, I've probably used up my luck. I have three albatrosses, but I would give all three for an ace. 

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1 hour ago, fixyurdivot said:

Poor Kirke, robbed early of a lifelong chase for the ace 😆.  If he checks off the albatross before his 13th B-day, we'll have to start a MGS GoFundMe until he gets his own sponsors.

Just to make us feel better I think his dad needs to be handing him the snow shovel and kicking him out the door to fund his own 8 yo hole in one self!! They are in Michigan after all.  And he could even be muttering "Hows that H I O feel now punk" as he hands him the shovel!    😂

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4 minutes ago, Siamese Moose said:

It would probably be a jinx, but you could use a Sharpie to put 6" marks on your putter shaft in lieu of a tape measure. 😀

 

I think someone will be within a score cards length of the hole this year.  

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25 years an counting.... Not sure I'd know what to do if I do sink one, but I'd think that a good problem to have!  I'm in!

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Nope, golfing since 1977.   Lots of close calls but....

If I get one, I'm afraid the world will come to end.  Right up there with the Lions winning the Super Bowl.

BTW, great idea @GolfSpy MPR, I'm in.   Maybe I will hit a green at least.

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Congratulations, everyone.  This will definitely be your year.  I'm joining this thread, which means at the end of the season I'll be the only one without an ace, since that's how things always seem to work for me.  I will require partial credit for your aces, however.

I've been inside 3 feet a couple of times, but not in the last couple of years and never really thought any of those close calls really had a chance.

I do like the "winner is the closest to the hole without an ace" angle presented by @GolfSpy MPR.

I always try to remember that I'm not good enough to get mad!

 

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5 hours ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

So not to depress anyone other than myself...… I play between 50 to 75 rounds a year. So lets use 50.

50 rounds times 4 par three's is 200 attempts a year. 200 times 30 years is 6,000. For three years I played a work league on a par three course in CT. We played nine holes after work.  A real par three course not a pitch and putt. So add 5 holes times 20 rounds, times three years is 300.  So I have tried 6,300 times to get a hole in one.   I stink at this part of the game! 😢

On a positive note... This will be the year!

Love the analysis Tom... really puts this pursuit in perspective.  I hate to pile on, but if you factor in @pulledabillstats, and that no one gaming Sub70 irons has ever made an ace... well, just saying 🤣.

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I have been playing on and off since the 70s and regularly since the 90s.  I have hit quite a few into the hole from the fairway or rough (par 3 distances) but have never done it from a tee box.  Like most everyone else I have gotten close a few times with the closest being about  1 1/2 inches in the early 90s.   This stands out to me clearly due to what followed.   as I approached the next tee an older gentleman asked me if it went in the hole and I said no.   He responded that Ben Hogan once told him that having the ball stop next to the hole required skill but it only required luck.   I later found out that he was Chandler Harper a former professional golfer who has 7 tour wins including a PGA Championship.  

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At the end of the season, the winner of this thread is the guy whose ball finished closest to the hole without a hole in one.

Ouch, I'd rather miss it by a lot. Kinda like having all but one lottery number - I'd rather know I didn't come close to the numbers picked

BTW, one of the guys I regularly play with whose handicap is 12 strokes higher than mine reminds me occasionally he's had 2 HIO.


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On 2/3/2021 at 5:42 PM, fixyurdivot said:

Love the analysis Tom... really puts this pursuit in perspective.  I hate to pile on, but if you factor in @pulledabillstats, and that no one gaming Sub70 irons has ever made an ace... well, just saying 🤣.

Well I only started playing the Sub-70 irons last summer. I came close a few times last season with one being about 2 inches from the hole with those clubs. So I can say I'm getting closer than what I was used to.  

But I am detecting a challenge..... Game on brotha!

 

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