Bucks County Golf
By Bob Oliver
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| Written by Bob Oliver | |
| Saturday, 19 December 2009 | |
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There are golfers who play an entire career and never come close to a hole-in-one.
Good players can be shut out in the ace department, while duffers can flub a shot and somehow, someway the ball ends up in the hole for a golfer's dream shot.
The odds of a golf professional getting a hole-in-one are estimated to be 3,800-to-one. An amateur? More like 13,000-to-one. Yet the Bensalem Municipal Golf Course recently saw what has been estimated as 17-million-to-1 occur --- two players in the same foursome recorded a hole-in-one.
If that's not a noteworthy feat, nothing that happens on a golf course is.
The players? Mark Grilli and Ron McAllister.
The location? The Blue Tees at Bensalem's par-3, 157-yard 11th hole.
THe 11th has long been one of the area's top locations for garnering a hole-in-one. Six aces have been scored there this year, and over the last 20 years more than 100 aces have been scored on the mid-iron club test (see Ace Report under www.golfbuckscounty.com Local Golfers section for specifics).
Grilli used an 8 iron for his feat. McAllister a nine iron.
Two swings, two shots, two aces. How hard can the game of golf really be?
Comments (4)
Bogey Bill: Remarkable Accomplishment
This one is almost too good to believe. Great job handling the pressure.
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December 22, 2009
Green-Eyed Golfster: Wow...
I can't even imagine being able to hit a hole in one. It would have been hilarious if it happened on a par-5 hole.
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December 29, 2009
abin: Really G8
I just cant believe it..
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December 30, 2009
XS: wohow
It's too good to be truth and amazing in the same time
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December 30, 2009
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