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Golf: Hole in one with first shot of match

Hawkes Bay Today
15 Apr, 2011 06:00 PM2 mins to read

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Hastings Golf Club member Bruce Allen scored a hole in one on his first shot of a match.
The 67-year-old was playing in the Heart Foundation tournament at the Hawke's Bay Golf Club on Friday of last week when he aced the 130m No 2 par-three hole in the first hole
of the shotgun start.
It was the second hole in one for the semi-retired sheep farmer from Dannevirke who now lives in Meeanee, Napier.
His first was in February 2002 when he tamed the Hastings club's No 4 par-three hole. Allen got a couple of bottles of wine for his feat in the Heart Foundation tournament.
Kevin Na set a PGA Tour golf record for the highest score on a par-four hole when he needed 16 shots to finish the ninth hole at the Texas Open yesterday, according to Reuters.
Na's nightmare is the highest score on a par-four since PGA Tour records for scorecards began in 1983.
The South Korean-born American's horrible hole is tied as the second highest on any single hole since 1983 - behind John Daly's 18 on a par-five at Bay Hill in 1998.
Na sent his tee shot on the ninth into the woods, found the ball and declared an unplayable lie and returned to the tee.
Na, ranked 64th in the world, then hit deep right into the woods again, played a provisional shot left but went to the second shot on the right to play it from the woods. That shot, his fourth, hit a tree and the ball ricocheted on to his pant leg, costing him a two-shot penalty.
Na hit six shots in the woods, trying to get out of the trees, before he finally found the rough and played from there to the fringe of the green.
The 27-year-old ended his nightmare with a putt from just under six feet to make 15.
Na, who was one under par before the ninth, regained his composure impressively to record three birdies on a flawless back nine to finish with an eight over-par 80, leaving him 13 strokes back of the lead.
Among the scores from before 1983, according to the PGA Tour's website, Tommy Armour hit the worst single-hole score when he shot a 23 during the 1927 Shawnee Open.
Ray Ainsely made the same score during the 1938 US Open.

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