Pitch and Putt Golf
 

This past weekend there was a picture in the newspaper showing three people celebrating a Hole In One on the 10th Hole at the Richmond Pitch and Putt Golf Course. Really!!!

Appreciate comments ! Just Curious:popcorn:

Next we will be celebrating Holes In One on Putt -Putt Courses.????:popcorn:

And they probably used a driver :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

I listened to one brag today, about an Executive Course HIO. It's like everything else in life today, everyone wants a "participation medal".

Those of us who have legitimate ones, have the "real thing".

I have 13 full shot "hole outs" from the Fairway (which if you're a golfer, you know are usually more difficult). It won't be long before there's a new name for fairway hole outs & folks will be wanting plaques.

I agree. I only have one hole-in-one, and that was in 1978. But using the equipment of that era, it was 198 yards with a 5 iron, so I think it definitely falls in the "legitimate" category. If we count hole outs from 100 yards in, like you I have dozens. And I can't count how many times I hit it through the windmill into the clowns mouth, but apparently some "celebrators" can.

Well if you are going to denigrate someone else's joy, you should discount any golfing achievements you have unless you played "from the tips". After all, anything less than that is "friendly golf".

You're right, it might be the achievement of a lifetime for some, especially a beginner. Mea culpa. And BTW, I only play the "tips" maybe once a month now, the last time in the Bahamas just before they played the Korn-Ferry tour event there. It was only 7200 yards, but the wind was a huge factor. You have to admire the pro golfers, just breaking par there is an accomplishment.

Have you ever celebrated your favorite sports team winning an event ? Why ? You did not play. Just curious.

I have 5 holes in one. 75 yds 115 yds 130 yds 145 yds and 150 yds. They all cost me money for the post celebration libations. Question which ones do not count so I can request for some of my celebration money back.

I don't ever play the tips. As a courtesy to the people behind me (that's a joke, son), but never had the game for it. Well, that's not entirely true, in some amateur events I qualified into flights that required it, where it then became evident I was in over my head.
As I approach 70, I'm finding more and more courses are too much from me from the whites. I fear the Greens are just a birthday away.

Related question: Those shot-their-age scores published in the Sun, are they gross or net? You know, 87 year-old posts an 86. Great, but gross or net? This is why I want to still ne playing at age 100.

Maybe they were celebrating that they could walk an 18 hole course. When is the last time any of us achieved that feat?

So what do the pros call it when they hole a "legitimate" tee shot on a Par-3?

That's what I thought.

At least we don't need a new name for people who are always ragging on others.

A classic "Village" hole in one! Hit a shot that never gets more than 3 feet off the ground and watch it roll and roll and roll... Until it rolls on the green and happens to go in the hole...

I saw a lady get TWO of them one day, while playing with my wife @ Sarasota... They were her 10th and 11th holes in one... And she had only been playing just over a year! Of course the happened to fall into the BIG holes on the green...

I've probably played 200-300 courses. I've never played one that had a 75 yard Par 3. I'd see if you can get your money back for that one.

Almost every hole on every executive course has holes shorter than 75 yards - if you play from the front or (as I call them) the senior tees.

75 Yds - Hole number 5 Hill Top. Where is the cut off ? 80 yd 90 yds 95 yds 104 yds 118.6 yds ? Does uphill or downhill count ? With or against the wind ? So as to distinguish my 75 yd shot from the tee that ended in the hole is not a legitimate "hole in one" I'll simply call it an "ace".

The club I managed, had a single Green that was longer than 75 yards.

When you knocked in a Putt from one end to the other, we called it "nice putt", not a "hole in one".

75 yd green ? Yea I was on that green "in regulation". Then I one putted. Can you believe they called that a "birdie"?

Next, they will be posting pics of aces on the Putt N Plays.

Hey, why not. Good to be happy about the little things in life as well.

USGA approves Hole in one on both Executive and 18 courses. Congratulations to anyone who can play golf at any age and enjoys the sport. One learns many lessons on a golf course. Good sportsmanship is one lesson I have learned. Cheers to the group that celebrated the players Hole in one. That is what the game is all about.

I guess it's just natural for someone to rain on another person's happiness. Who really cares. People having fun.

Goody for you. Goody for your club with the green that was longer than 75 yards.

We'll defer to you and your club before we do any celebrating here. We wouldn't want to have any fun or excitement of which your boys at the "Country Club of Really Large Greens" would not approve.

Reminds me of the other day, on #8, Mallory-Virginia. The tee box is close to the pickleball courts. From the courts you could hear whooping, laughing, and human sounds I would associate with happiness, and fun. I commented to my playing partners , "hear that? Hear that laughing, and joking, and general happiness? That's pickleball. Thank goodness we don't go for that nonsense on this side of the fence, where we recognize that our recreation is an exercise in futility, anger, and frustration."

It's good that we honor places like "The Country Club With Really Big Greens" and members thereof to remind us of our plight.

It’s a TV hole in one. No such thing as a pitch and putt or executive golf course hole in one.

Hopefully, Pickleball is giving out "Participation Medals".

Many times those are called birdies or eagles so there is already a name for hole outs from the fairway. And yes those are also celebrated.

WOW! How about being happy for someone else being happy??? The negativity of this group truly has no limits!

give them a break… depends on the ability of the player. I play with a 68 y/o with Parkinson’s on wednesdays, if he 50 hops it into a hole from 75 yards, he deserves his name in the paper. My sister in law never held a golf club and holed a 175 ft putt at one of the putting course, everyone around was thrilled and cheering… she will remember the one shot of a life for her. Me, my shot of my life, I have one double eagle on a 535 yard hole, take that and it never made it to the paper :-) . My wife has one that bounced and rolled from about 100 yards in Maui, the course gave her a pin flag. So championship courses from the tips to putting courses, let them celebrate, It;’s the villages, congratulate them.

Food for thought - perhaps the hole in one golfer pictured at the pitch and putt is handicapped and is playing to his or her ability as a courtesy to you by not playing the "big boy" courses and slowing play. You want to tell that golfer it wasn't a hole in one.

Woke?

Yes - been up since 5:30 AM

All I know is I wear two pairs of socks when I play golf just in case I get a hole-in-one 😳

Ever had to use the second pair??

A hole in one, is a hole in one, doesn't matter where.

Hole In One is a Hole In One= Celebrate
 

The 7th hole at Pebble beach has played at 92 yards in the US Open. The hole is all downhill with a considerable drop. That relates to about 75 yards. A ball hit from a tee, into the hole, is reason for celebration. Congratulations!!!!

I think this hole would qualify as well.............
 

7th at Pebble Beach.


[QUOTE=yabbadu;21815This past weekend there was a picture in the newspaper showing three people celebrating a Hole In One on the 10th Hole at the Richmond Pitch and Putt Golf Course. Really!!!

Appreciate comments ! Just Curious:popcorn:

Next we will be celebrating Holes In One on Putt -Putt Courses.????:popcorn:[/QUOTE]

Exactly! I have never heard such childish talk....who cares!
If I'm playing ( or anyone) a pitch and putt and I get a hole in one....guess what, I got a hole in one.
All you have to say is "wow, that's nice", as anyone would say for a regulation course. I'm not asking for a trophy.

It does seem like the ones that have issue with this are all the same type of personality, same sex, same "needy" way about them. What has happened, where's the confidence. Appreciating something good about another person does not make you look bad, quite the opposite. It shows how much self confidence you have, just shut your mouth and let them have a moment.

I have to say, all of us "old folks" down here have no right complaining about the younger generation all needing their trophies, because the stroking needed by the older men is insane! Maybe it's just a coincidence, but in the last 4 months I have been back I have never met so many insecure men...." I've done this, I have that, I drive a little red" the list goes on. What is missing in their lives?
Anyway....if you all get a hole in one on a regulation course, a pitch and putt or even just a putt.....Congratulations!!!!

Please don't tell me you're comparing #7 at Pebble to any of the 75 yard holes on exec courses here. Please don't. Yes, it is 92 yards downhill, but often into a 40+ mph wind. Even Nicklaus stated he has hit 5 iron to that hole. Additionally, just try to skull a driver into the hole there, rotsa ruck.

I saw a picture in the paper of people enjoying themselves at a Town Square. Really??

I got a hole in one at the Clifton Cove Course - does that count? Celebrate LIFE and all of it's triumphs!