Monday
Jul272009
PGA Tour Player Leif Olsen Hits Bank Shot Hole In One (Clip)
Long-time readers know that I'm a golfer which explains the following 41 seconds of entertainment. Over the weekend at the RBC Canadian Open, Leif Olsen won this red BMW convertible with this extremely unlikely hole in one.
Jul 27, 2009 at 11:12 PM
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I've been playing seriously (sort of) for 15 years. Probably 75 rounds per year every year and never a hole in one. I have friends who have them and are not good golfers...so much luck involved.
My closest ever was in Santa Barbara at Sandpiper the Ocean Course. Jimmy Connors and his son were playing in the group ahead of us and saw my shot. It was a 175 yard par 3 straight into teh Western Sun and the Pacific with an elevation drop of at least 150 feet from tee to green. I landed it short of the green and it hit something and bounced toward the hole. It stopped 1/4 of one inch below the hole, dead center. You couldn't even see ANY green between teh ball and the cup.
I could not even see teh shot b/c of teh sun. I didn't know it until I got down to the green. Connors didn't even say good shot.
Bastard. The bizarre part was my first job out of UVa was as facilities co-ordinator for teh Sovran Bank Tennis Classic which in 1988 was the last tournament Connors ever won as a pro. So I dealt with him and his then 10 year old son all week in the players tent and then didn't see him again until 9 years later at Sandpiper, where of course he wouldn't have remembered me, so I didn't even bother introducing myself.
But he still could have said good shot. Grin.