Tag: Hole in one

Viktor Hovland sank a picturesque hole-in-one at the Arnold Palmer Invitational

It’s going to be an expensive night for Viktor Hovland in Orlando.

Drinks are most certainly on Viktor Hovland Friday night in Orlando, Florida and it’s becoming a yearly tradition for the 25-year-old.

During second round play at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Hovland stepped up to the tee at the par-three No. 7 and sank one of the most beautiful aces you’ll ever see for the fourth hole-in-one of his career.

Perfect speed. Perfect bounce. Perfect line. Just perfection all the way around, really. Hovland made the 183-yard distance look like a simple chip shot.

Any player to hit a hole-in-one this weekend was -125 at BetMGM after “no hole-in-one” opened at -135. The API has seen nine aces over the last 10 tournaments— including three in 2021 — so the smart money was definitely on seeing some magic in Orlando.

Now the pressure is on Hovland to keep his ace-per-year streak alive on the PGA Tour. But he can worry about that after picking up the bar tab at Bay Hill on Friday.

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Jordan Smith hit a hole-in-one at the Genesis Scottish Open to win cars for himself and his caddie

A drive for a drive.

In the first year of luxury vehicle manufacturer Genesis as a sponsor for the Scottish Open, a cool little incentive was added to the 17th hole for those in the field.

The first player to ace the 203-yard par-3 would be taking home the new electric Genesis GV70 SUV, and his caddie would get the GV60 crossover. It didn’t take long for someone to stake claim to the prizes.

On Friday, Jordan L. Smith nailed the hole-in-one just before the finish of his second round. The shot landed on the green several yards from the flag, but got a perfect roll right into the cup.

Smith sits at three under after the round. The Genesis Scottish Open is the first event co-sanctioned by the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour and counts towards both the DP World Tour rankings and FedExCup Standings.

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Corey Conners was so casual about draining a perfect hole-in-one at the RBC Heritage

No big deal for Conners, who has four aces since 2019.

It’s okay if you’re feeling a bit of a golf hangover after the Masters last week.

The intensity and emotion of Augusta can take a lot out of all of us—let alone those playing the famed course. But sometimes the best way to get over a hangover is to get right back out on the course. Many of the top golfers in the world are doing just that at the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head, South Carolina this weekend.

Corey Conners is among those back in action on Thursday and it’s clear he’s still dialed in after his sixth place finish in Georgia. Just look at how casually he sinks this hole-in-one at the par 3 No. 7.

That’s not a fluke or a lucky shot, either. Conners placed the ball perfectly beyond the front of the green and watched as it only needed to roll a few feet further to drop in the cup.

If it appears as though Conners is acting like he’s been here before, there’s a pretty simple reason for that: he has. Quite often, in fact. According to the PGA, no player has sunk more aces than Conners’ four since 2019.

It’s also the second consecutive year the RBC Heritage has seen a hole-in-one at No. 7 with Denny McCarthy recording one last year on Sunday. There have been 10 aces at No. 7 dating back to 1990, but it’s hard to imagine anyone remained more calm than Conners did. Despite dropping to three-under par with the shot, his playing partners—and a few bettors—appeared more fired up than he was.

Take note: betting on an ace in any given tournament might be a good strategy, but betting on Conners to sink one is certainly more profitable. Especially if he keeps draining them at this rate.

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Jon Rahm astonishingly skipped his shot off the water for a jaw-dropping hole-in-one

Greatest shot ever?

If you ever needed more evidence of how ridiculously good professional golfers are at golf, look no further than the sorcery that Jon Rahm pulled off at Augusta.

It has been a tradition over the years to attempt to skip your shot off the water on No. 16 during practice rounds. And while any regular golfer would simply send their shot plunging into a pond (you know, because gravity), pro golfers turn that pond into a playable avenue of some sort.

But man, Rahm’s attempt at No. 16 on Tuesday may legitimately be the most remarkable golf shot I’ve ever seen. He skipped his shot off the water for a hole-in-one.

Like, what?! How? That is real.

And, sure, Rahm might not be the first player to successfully hole this pond-to-pin shot. But I’m going all in on my recency bias and declaring this the greatest golf shot ever. Sorry not sorry. Twitter seemed to agree.

That settles it.

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PGA golfer finds out he hit a hole-in-one after someone started screaming from the green

Sound on.

Like every professional sporting event around the country, Sunday’s final round of the PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park was played without fans in attendance.

But that didn’t stop a course volunteer from providing Byeong Hun An with some much-needed sound effects.

After Hun An hit a brilliant tee shot on the par-3 11th, he tried to watch as the ball took a couple bounces on the green and then trickled right into the hole. But from his vantage point, he couldn’t exactly see if the ball had gone in.

That was when some course volunteer around the green provided a helping hand and just started … uh … screaming. And loudly.

That loud reaction was what Hun An needed to know he had just hit a hole-in-one. The delayed celebration after the screaming was just fantastic.

The hole-in-one was good enough to move Hun An to 3-under on the tournament.

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Aces wild at Mayakoba Golf Classic

Not one, but two pros will be buying drinks tonight after acing the par-3, 4th hole at the Mayakoba Golf Classic.

Aces are wild at the Mayakoba Golf Classic.

With only one round in the books, there already have been two holes-in-one at the fourth hole – in back-to-back groups, no less.

First, it was Cameron Tringale, who teed off at 8:10 a.m. on Friday and marked a one on his scorecard at the 112-yard, par-3 fourth at El Camaleon Golf Club.

“It looked good the whole way,” Tringale told PGA Tour.com. “It landed about two inches short and went straight in.”

It was his second career hole-in-one on the PGA Tour (2011 Valspar Championship) and the second ace at the fourth hole in tournament history (Aaron Wise did the trick in Round 1 in 2016). Tringale signed for 2-under 69.

“It was early, so there weren’t too many spectators,” he said. “They cheered, threw their hands up. I wasn’t really paying attention to them. I was slapping fives with the guys in the group (Fabián GĂłmez and K.H. Lee).”

 

But, Tringale can split the bar bill for his heroics with rookie Chase Seiffert, who shot 68 and recorded his first hole-in-one on Tour, also at the fourth.

“We were in the fairway and heard the applause and saw (Tringale) kind of high-fiving everyone. I just tried to hit a 106 shot, downwind. It landed maybe a foot right of it and spun back into the pin. It’s kind of cool to go back-to-back there. Very rare,” Seiffert said. “There may have been six or seven people around the green, so it was quiet except for us on the tee. My caddie (Brian Fitch) and I high-fived way too hard, and my hand got a little sore for a few minutes.”

There were no keys to a car up for grabs, but Tringale and Seiffert were rewarded with bottles of PatrĂłn tequila. The two aces ups the tally to seven in the first 10 events of the 2019-20 season. There were 36 holes-in-one last season.

When was the last time aces were made in back-to-back groups, you ask? Padraig Harrington and Kirk Triplett did so at the 16th hole in the final round of the 2004 Masters Tournament.

The National Hole-in-One Registry says that the odds of a PGA Tour pro getting a hole-in-one is 3,000 to 1. (It also says the “average” golfer has a 12,000 to 1 shot at making an ace).

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