There is nothing that can bring a golfer down after making a hole-in-one. At least, that’s what I imagine as someone who has never been fortunate enough to make an ace. But one random and completely irrelevant response from a golfer’s wife just might have done the trick.
Rory McIlroy was understandably disappointed to not claim a fifth major championship on Sunday at the US Open. In the meantime, he’ll have to settle for accomplishing a career-first on Thursday at the Travelers Championship.
There have been countless instances in which someone called their shot and predicted their own hole-in-one. The amount of times that actually has happened, however, is almost zero.
We have quite a few holes-in-one stories here, but very few (none) of them feature a golfer saying that he’s going to sink an ace … and then doing exactly that.
Not for the ace he made at the par-3 seventh at Harbour Town Golf Links on Friday at the RBC Heritage, although that was nice. But for the masterclass in self-trolling he delivered on social media after jarring a 6-iron from 191 yards in the second round.
In the midst of chopping his way to a one-over-par 73 on Thursday in the first round of the Players Championship, Hayden Buckley accomplished a feat never seen before at the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass that still gave him reason to smile.