That day, gap #7 was 174 yards to the pin. I used my 7 iron and landed roughly 5 yards quick, it rolled up and dropped in.
It’s an attention-grabbing story on what lead as much as at the present time. My grandfather was a golf professional and owned a golf store right here in Edmonton. As a child, I golfed fairly a bit, however completely stopped at 14 years outdated. 4 years in the past I believed I ought to get again at it and have been getting in 50 – 70 rounds per yr since then.
This March, my spouse and I had been in a critical head on collision at freeway velocity which put an finish to all sporting actions, as we centered on physiotherapy and restoration. July thirteenth, we obtain a name that considered one of our golf companions (Dale) had a coronary heart assault and sadly handed away on the course. The next day I golfed the primary spherical of the yr in his spot, with the foursome that had been collectively for 20 years, a gaggle that I had spared with for 3 years.
The following weekend, I performed my second spherical of the yr, and the next weekend was once I was fortunate sufficient to get my first hole-in-one. That day I used to be {golfing} with my mates Marcel, Doug and Billy, however I’m certain there was a fifth using together with us.