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This former Masters champion made a crazy hole-in-one in high winds in Hawaii

It was all captured on video. 

Making a hole-in-one is an impressive feat. Doing it in 35-plus mile-per-hour winds? Even moreso.

That’s what Mike Weir, the 2003 Masters champion and 2024 International team Presidents Cup captain, did Tuesday during a practice round ahead of the PGA Tour Champions season-opening event in Hawaii.

Playing in a pro-am at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai Golf Course, Weir landed his tee shot on the green on the par-3 17th hole and then watched as the wind assisted in pushing his ball closer and closer to the hole before it dropped in the cup.

And it was all captured on video.

Weir got married in mid-November during the Champions tour offseason to Michelle Money, who was a contestant on The Bachelor. He has one win on the over-50 circuit.

Dwyane Wade makes hole-in-one at Pebble Beach on iconic 7th hole

Add Dwyane Wade to the list of former athletes who have been bitten by the golf bug.

As if being a three-time NBA champion, 13-time All-Star and one of the greatest shooting guards of all time wasn’t enough, Dwyane Wade had to go and get good at golf, too.

Showoff.

That may sound harsh, but as a lifetime golfer I’m still without a legitimate hole-in-one. The 41-year-old Wade, who had a 16-year Hall of Fame career on the court, already has me beat on the course after his recent trip to Pebble Beach.

Wade made a hole-in-one on the picturesque and far-from-easy par-3 7th hole at Pebble Beach this weekend and is now “locked in for life” when it comes to golf. We don’t blame him!

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Wade played 14 of his 16 seasons in the NBA with the Miami Heat, where he won three titles in 2006, 2012 and 2013. He also won a gold medal at the Olympics in 2008 and was selected as a member of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team.

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Europe’s Emily Kristine Pedersen plays slope to make wild hole-in-one at 2023 Solheim Cup

The ace is just the second in Solheim Cup history.

CASARES, Spain — The struggle had been all too real for Team Europe’s Emily Kristine Pedersen on the first day of the 2023 Solheim Cup.

After losing 5-and-4 alongside Charley Hull to Americans Ally Ewing and Cheyenne Knight in Friday morning’s foursomes session, the Dane was sent back out to play with Maja Stark in the afternoon fourball session and proceeded to struggle.

Until the 12th hole.

A few players had played the slope from off the green on the par 3 to get close to the hole, but nobody did so better than Pedersen. She landed her ball in the perfect spot and watched it turn right and roll into the bottom of the cup. The ace is just the second in Solheim Cup history as Pedersen joins teammate and assistant caption Anna Nordqvist, who was the first to accomplish the feat in 2013.

Pedersen is making her third appearance for Team Europe this week and carries a 3-5-0 record.

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Golfer named Blade makes two aces in four holes, celebrates with dive into lake

This former baseball player only started playing golf about five years ago.

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Making a hole-in-one is pretty cool.

Getting two of them in the same round is crazy.

Having them come in a span of four holes is totally wild.

That’s just what happened to Blade Kurilich. Yep, Blade, that’s his real name. His club of choice for his pair of aces was a 9-iron.

“That club will be getting framed once I get a new set,” he joked after his round.

Kurilich was playing Sterling Grove Golf & Country Club in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise, Arizona, earlier this week with his regular crew. His first hole-in-one came on the third hole, where he did his best Michael Block PGA Championship impression.

“I hit just a stock 9-iron and actually dunked it straight in the hole on the fly,” he said. “I didn’t know it at the time but heard the pin rattle from the tee box. When I got up there I saw where the ball actually took a chunk out of the cup before I saw the ball in the hole.”

Four holes later, Kurilich was on the seventh tee box, again holding his 9-iron. The hole measured 172 yards but it was downwind.

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“I couldn’t see that one in either over the ridge. So for both hole-in-ones I had to check the cup to be certain,” he said.

The National Hole-in-One Registry reports that the odds of an average golfer making an ace are 12,000-to-1. Kurilich says he’s a +2.4 so the odds for a golfer like him is 5,000-to-1. But this two ace thing is the real longshot, as the odds of a player making two holes-in-one in the same round are 67 million to 1.

A former baseball player who only started playing about five years ago, Kurilich had never had a hole-in-one before he got these two.

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The scorecard for Blade Kurilich, who had two holes-in-one in a four-hole stretch at Sterling Grove Golf Club in Surprise, Arizona. (Photo: Blade Kurilich)

“After my second hole-in-one I had promised my buddy driving up to the green that if that one was in too, I’d dive in the lake,” he said. “Well I had to keep up on that promise and dove right in. My game went completely in the tank after that second one.”

Kurilich worked in finance in Denver but moved to Scottsdale recently with his fiancee to chase his dream of professional golf.

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Davis Shore makes a hole-in-one on a par 4 at PGA Tour Canada tournament

There has been only one of them ever on the PGA Tour.

There has been only one of them ever on the PGA Tour.

Now there’s a hole-in-one on a par 4 on PGA Tour Canada.

Davis Shore pulled off that amazing feat Friday at the PGA Tour Canada’s Windsor Championship.

Playing the back nine first in his second round, Shore actually had a roller-coaster of a day. He opened with two pars and was – believe it not – even through six holes after a double bogey-birdie-double bogey-ace. He was still even after two more pars on Nos. 16 and 17 at Ambassador Golf Club in Windsor, Ontario. A bogey on the 18th hole, his ninth of the day, gave him the wildest 1-over front nine you’ll probably ever see.

Back to his ace, Shore did it on a short par 4 that measures 321 yards on the scorecard but was playing 290 yards Friday.

There doesn’t appear to be video of the actual shot, so that stinks. He said he reached the green Thursday with a wind-aided 3-wood but used driver Friday.

“I hit it really well and it was right at the pin,” he said. “But the thought of it going in never crossed my mind, to be honest, till it actually went in.”

He said he could hear his ball hit the flagstick from the tee box before it found the bottom of the cup.

“That was pretty incredible,” he said.

After his first nine, he was 2 over for the tournament, and seven shots off the cutline, but on his second nine, he caught fire, making five birdies and three pars to shoot a 67 and get to 3 under for the week. However, he was still short of the projected cut at 5 under.

Shore won the PGA Tour Canada’s event a week ago at TPC Toronto. This week, despite his par-4 heroics, he’s near the bottom of the leaderboard.

His par-4 ace is the first ever on the Canadian circuit.

Andrew Magee has the only ace on a par 4 in tournament play in the PGA Tour, doing so at the 17th hole at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona in 2001.

There have been four aces on par-4s on the Korn Ferry Tour, the most recent coming in 2012 in the then-Web.com Tour Championship by Rob Oppenheim at TPC Craig Ranch in Texas.

Crazy game, this golf.

High school golfer makes three aces in 24 swings during alumni golf outing

Joseph Maloof, 15, had never made a hole-in-one before this week. Now he has three.

If you have trouble believing this story, don’t feel bad. Joseph Maloof’s own mother thought he was joking when he told her about his day at the Thomas F. Koch ’88 Alumni Golf Outing benefitting Saint Ignatius High School (Cleveland) earlier this week.

The 15-year-old sophomore from Avon, Ohio, is a member of the two-time defending state champion boys golf team at Saint Ignatius and was participating in the annual charity event. Maloof was parked on the 120-yard par-3 16th hole at Lakewood Country Club, and groups in the outing could use his tee shot if they made a $20 donation to charity. Koch passed away while attending the school, and all profits from the event go to a scholarship established in his memory.

Of the 24 groups to use his tee shot, three walked away with a one on the scorecard as Maloof made not one, not two, but three aces during the outing, all with his 50-degree wedge.

“After I finished the outing it didn’t feel real. I came home, took a shower, ate dinner and went to bed like nothing happened that day,” he said. “The next day it started kicking in I’m like, ‘Wow, I really made three holes-in-one?’”

Maloof missed the green with his first two attempts, but on the third he figured out the issue. The Avon, Ohio, native landed his ball just beyond the pin and spun it back into the hole for not just his first hole-in-one of the day, but his first ever.

“The whole group was going crazy and it felt weird because I’ve never experienced or even seen a hole-in-one on TV or with my friends,” said Maloof, a member at Lakewood. “So it felt weird but also felt great because it was my first hole-in-one ever.”

His second hole-in-one came just a few swings after the first, and the final ace was near the end of the day.

“The first one we were all like screaming and shouting. The second one, only me and my teammate Bradley Chill saw it drop. The people that were in the group didn’t see it go in,” Maloof said. “Both of us were just laughing and they didn’t know what was going on until they found out it went in. Then they all started screaming and hugging me.”

Maloof held on to the first two balls he made aces with, but he doesn’t have the third.

“One of the guys told me to hit one of their balls and I made one of theirs. I didn’t want to be rude and say, ‘Can I keep it?’” explained Maloof. “I probably should have.”

Saint Ignatius golf tryouts are next Monday and Maloof is feeling good about his chances of making varsity and helping the Wildcats win a third consecutive state title. After all, he knows a thing or two about three-peats.

Not one, not two, but three holes-in-one Monday at 2023 U.S. Girls’ Junior

The three holes-in-one matches the most in a single U.S. Girls’ Junior.

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Making a hole-in-one is one of the hardest things to achieve in golf. It doesn’t happen often, even for professionals.

But three in one day? That happened Monday at the 2023 U.S. Girls’ Junior at Eisenhower Golf Club’s Blue Course in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Three different players carded aces in the first round of stroke play. First, Veronika Exposito of The Woodlands, Texas, flushed a 5-hybrid from 162 yards out on the third hole. Then, Emerie Schartz of Wichita, Kansas, aced the 143-yard seventh with a 7 iron. Last but not least, 2023 U.S. Women’s Open qualifier Angela Zhang essentially mimicked Schartz, using a 7 iron on the seventh.

The aces are the 23rd, 24th and 25th known holes-in-one in championship history, and they’re the first since 2021. For Schartz, it was her second competitive ace in a month.

The three holes-in-one matches the most in a single U.S. Girls’ Junior. Three were also made in 2004 at Mira Vista Golf Club in Fort Worth, Texas, including one by future U.S. Women’s Open champion Paula Creamer.

After the first round, Anna Davis, the 2022 Augusta National Women’s Amateur champion, was one of four players tied for the lead after shooting a 4-under 68. She carded eight birdies in her round but also had four bogeys.

The second round of stroke play continues Tuesday. After play finishes, the field will be cut to the top 64, who will advance to match play.

Watch: In Gee Chun makes hole-in-one during final round at 2023 U.S. Women’s Open

There’s something about aces in majors in 2023 for In Gee Chun.

There’s something about aces in majors in 2023 for In Gee Chun.

During Sunday’s final round at Pebble Beach Golf Links, Chun made a hole-in-one at the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open.

She did it at the par-3 5th hole in Pebble Beach, California, the ball bounding for the hole after hitting the green. It then rolled right in the cup for a 1 and Chun then made her way towards the green, high-fiving fans lined up along the hole.

The ace came after she opened with four pars and it vaulted her into the top 10, getting her to even par for the tournament, seven shots off the lead.

It was her second ace in a major in 2023. She also made one in April at the Chevron Championship and that ace also won a million dollars for charity.

It’s the 33rd ace in U.S. Women’s Open history.

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This teenager aced a 403-yard par 4 during a PGA Tour Monday qualifier

Bet he couldn’t do that again.

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It’s not every day you see golfers making holes-in-one at professional events. Even that’s difficult for the best players in the world.

It’s almost a guarantee you’ll never see them make one on a par 4.

Don’t tell Aldrich Potgieter that.

The teenager from South Africa who recently turned pro aced a par 4 on the 403-yard 17th hole during a Monday qualifier for the PGA Tour’s 2023 John Deere Classic at Pinnacle Country Club in Milan, Illinois. He didn’t see the ball go into the hole and had no idea it was in until his caddie in the fairway ahead of him started freaking out.

In the history of the PGA Tour, there has only been one ace recorded on a par 4: Andrew McGee at the 2001 Phoenix Open.

Potgieter, 18,  was 5 under in his final five holes on the back nine (his first side) and signed for a 6-under 66— but he missed getting into the field by one shot.

He made his professional debut two weeks ago at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Compliance Solutions Championship in Norman, Oklahoma, then played last week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, where he missed the cut. He also made starts at the Masters and U.S. Open this year, making the cut at Los Angeles Country Club and finishing 64th.

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Two rounds, three aces: Matthew Fitzpatrick makes the third hole-in-one of the 2023 U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club

The defending champion sent fans into a frenzy on Friday with his first career ace as a professional.

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LOS ANGELES — Aces are running wild here at the 2023 U.S. Open.

In the early stages of Friday’s second round, defending champion Matthew Fitzpatrick made the third ace of the week – and the first of his professional career – on the par-3 15th. Fitzpatrick had a delayed reaction to his ace because players can’t see the hole from the tee box, and not many fans can get near the green on No. 15 at Los Angeles Country Club.”

“Yeah, I wish it would have been louder. I wish it was a few more people,” said Fitzpatrick, the defending champion. “But, yeah, I’m surprised there’s not been as many people out as I thought this week.”

The ace is the 51st in U.S. Open and third of the week after both Matthieu Pavon and Sam Burns made holes-in-one on the 15th on Thursday.

“As soon as I hit it I thought that it got a good chance of going close anyway. Dead center,” said Fitzpatrick, who signed for an even-par 70. “My hand was a bit sore afterward, I’ll be honest, after all the high fiving.”

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