What are the questions golfers get asked most by non golfers? I would hazard the top two may be “what is your handicap” and “where do you play?” But another regular question, is "have you ever had a hole in one?”
Holes in one are something non golfers have heard about, whether from that corny old joke “why does a golfer carry a spare pair of socks? It’s in case he gets a hole in one”; and also from the tradition that someone making a hole in one buying drinks all round. (This always struck me as unfair as the player with what might well be a once-in-a-lifetime achievement – see question 7 for further details about this aspect – is effectively punished, at least in the wallet, for it.)
I have never made a hole in one (well not yet… lets be positive here, after all time may be still on my side – see question 4), but I was playing with my elder brother when he made a hole in one using a putter. It was on a 85-yard hole at my club.
This prompted me to look up some facts on hole in ones, or aces as they are sometimes called. On the principle of waste not want not, here comes a quiz based on these, including some statistics and a story of an ace even more outrageously unlikely than that of my brother’s...
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