Holes-in-one don’t come around very often. The average golfer has a 12,500-to-1 shot at making one whenever they step onto the tee of a par 3. So when the opportunity does finally present itself – when the wind is right and it’s straight at it and you’re shouting “BE GOOD!” with every fibre of your being – you’d better damn well hope it goes down, because you may never get another chance again.
Just ask DP World Tour pro Nicolai von Dellingshausen (say that five times fast), who was the victim of perhaps the single greatest heist since the Gardner Museum at the British Masters overnight. If you think you have the stomach for it, watch on.
Wait…what? 🤯
As close to a hole-in-one as you'll ever get for Nicolai von Dellingshausen 🎯#BetfredBritishMasters pic.twitter.com/StNmVmYXSI
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It’s very tough to tell exactly where ball originally strikes, but it kicks off the flagstick and deflects back to the lip of the cup where it spins back towards the hole before suddenly stopping, teetering on the precipice of glory. Again, it’s hard to say for certain, but Dellingshausen’s ball may have even been stopped by its own pitchmark, left when it originally struck the green. Words cannot describe the brutality.
We’ve seen plenty of tough breaks and nearlies over the years, but this might be the most sickening of them all. On the bright side, if this had dropped, von Dellingshausen would have been buying drinks for the whole clubhouse. Instead, they all owe him one. Bottoms up.
