Althouse: 4-year-old hits a hole-in-one.

August 25, 2020

4-year-old hits a hole-in-one.

41 comments:

mockturtle said...: Love it! :-D; 8/25/20, 9:53 AM
Kevin said...: I do that in mini golf all the time.; 8/25/20, 9:54 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Time to find a new sport. He's mastered that one.; 8/25/20, 9:55 AM
sparrow said...: sweet; 8/25/20, 9:55 AM
Wince said...: His secret is holding his hands backwards on the shaft?; 8/25/20, 9:56 AM
as if.... said...: It's all down hill from there.; 8/25/20, 9:56 AM
mikee said...: The future is in good hands.
Carry on, young man. The world is yours, and awaits your pleasure.; 8/25/20, 9:59 AM
BarrySanders20 said...: Wonder why they put "hole in one" in quotes. Must be a West Virginia thing. But I may just be jealous since I aint never done that and I been trying for aught 50 years.

Poor kid has to shatter the piggy bank to buy a round in the clubhouse. Maybe he'll spring for a round of gumballs rather than drinks. Nice shot.; 8/25/20, 10:01 AM
Big Mike said...: They grow 'em big and strong in West Virginia.; 8/25/20, 10:02 AM
rcocean said...: that's incredible. Look for this guy to be the next Tiger WOods.; 8/25/20, 10:03 AM
JAORE said...: As a 40 year gap I'm taking up golf again. I always said if I ever hit a hole-in-one I'd quit. Then if asked if I played,I'd say,"Nah, too easy. My last game I had a hole-in-one".

I think I hate this kid.....; 8/25/20, 10:22 AM
Limited blogger said...: A round of chocolate milk for everybody!; 8/25/20, 10:24 AM
rehajm said...: "4-year-old buys much beer for the first time"; 8/25/20, 10:25 AM
Joe Smith said...: That's cute...not a terrible swing.

After thirty-five years of playing he's tied with me...; 8/25/20, 10:29 AM
Nonapod said...: Now he just needs to get an albatross on a par five.; 8/25/20, 10:35 AM
rehajm said...: I didn't see it go in the hole but I do wear my tin foil hat under my golf hat. It looked like it ball disappeared into the rough short of the green rather than bouncing and rolling toward the hole...; 8/25/20, 10:36 AM
Anonymous said...: >Look for this guy to be the next Tiger WOods.

Actually, Charlie Woods is the next Tiger Woods.; 8/25/20, 10:36 AM
Tommy Duncan said...: Cross handed grip.; 8/25/20, 10:39 AM
mockturtle said...: All holes-in-one are a lucky flukes but the more accurate your shots the better your chances. My father had one once in a tournament. While I've never had a hole-in-one, I did get an eagle on a par 4 which, in a way, is much the same. To me, anyway. And you don't have to buy drinks. ;-); 8/25/20, 10:39 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I once holed a fairway shot for an eagle, but have never had a hole in one. Closest I ever came was the ball coming to rest right on the edge of the cup. My main specialty was losing the ball in the forest.; 8/25/20, 10:41 AM
Drago said...: Just think. 4 years old.

That's just 1 year younger than the child one of Howard's Heroes executed at point blank range in front of the child's 2 young sisters.

And it's close to 4 years older than the age of the children the left harvests for body parts for fun and profit.; 8/25/20, 10:42 AM
rehajm said...: His secret is holding his hands backwards on the shaft?

It's a kid version of the reverse overlap. Left hand low. It's a great putting grip and some pros use it for chipping...

Freaks.; 8/25/20, 10:43 AM
traditionalguy said...: The Joy of Golf. Surely this earns an exception to the no men in shorts rule.; 8/25/20, 10:47 AM
HoodlumDoodlum said...: The guy saying "I'm not hitting next" made me laugh. A cute video.; 8/25/20, 10:48 AM
gspencer said...: A hole-in-one by any golfer is a matter of sheer luck.; 8/25/20, 10:58 AM
gilbar said...: any people say, that there's never any Good News; 8/25/20, 11:03 AM
traditionalguy said...: Luck? I beg to differ. All my holes in one were acts of God’s love for golfers.; 8/25/20, 11:11 AM
Wilbur said...: A few observations.

The grip: It's called cross-handed. A Tour Pro named Charlie Owens used to play with that grip.

The young man swings the club pretty well for his age, but please don't compare him in any way to Tiger Woods at that age.

I didn't see the ball go in either. I'm ... skeptical.

I've never had a hole-in-one, but I've seen several. Just unlucky I guess. I've been closer to a double eagle (10 inches) than to a hole-in-one.; 8/25/20, 11:11 AM
traditionalguy said...: Luck? I beg to differ. All my holes in one were acts of God’s love for golfers.; 8/25/20, 11:13 AM
Yancey Ward said...: "A hole-in-one by any golfer is a matter of sheer luck."

Not really true, though in my case it certainly would be almost all luck. It is a matter of luck, mostly, if I even land the ball on the green to have a chance at a hole in one, but it isn't luck for many others to get that close.; 8/25/20, 11:16 AM
Heartless Aztec said...: Ok Superboy. You can return o planet Krypton now.; 8/25/20, 11:33 AM
Joe Smith said...: "A hole-in-one by any golfer is a matter of sheer luck."

Not really luck, just a matter of what the odds are.

A professional golfer will put the ball nearer to the hole more times than an average golfer. The better the golfer, the closer, on average, the ball will be.

After all, a pro is (usually) aiming at the hole, he's not just randomly hitting the ball blindfolded.

In all settings (not just tournaments) Arnold Palmer had 19 of them. Nicklaus 20.; 8/25/20, 11:37 AM
stevew said...: A very nice palette cleanser. Thank you for posting this.

I've never had one, though have come very close several times.; 8/25/20, 12:22 PM
ConradBibby said...: SOME hole-in-ones are pure luck. Hooking a ball into the trees only to have it ricochet out in the direction of the green and fall into the hole would be an example. I wouldn't particularly want that for a hole in one. My first requirement for an ace to feel good about is that it be a really good shot, not just a lucky bounce. Second, I don't want it to be on par three where, because of the length of the hole or the conditions, I'm using a driver. Finally, I want it to be on a hole where everyone can actually see the ball go in. I don't want it to be to some elevated green where everyone is looking for the ball for five minutes before somebody notices it in the cup. That's anti-climactic.; 8/25/20, 12:23 PM
Rick.T. said...: It looks like a mirac- it's in the hole! It's in the hole!; 8/25/20, 12:34 PM
Wilbur said...: He's no Kim Jong Il. 5 holes-in-one in one round.; 8/25/20, 1:09 PM
Joe Smith said...: "My first requirement for an ace to feel good about is that it be a really good shot..."

Ha! Sounds like me.

My only hole-in-one was about 160 yards. It was cold so I took one more club than I would normally use and tried to hit a low, baby draw.

It went dead straight instead, hit the front of the green and rolled into the cup with perfect speed just like a putt.

My playing partners went crazy. I just shrugged and was kind of pissed because it wasn't the shot I was trying to hit.

It's called OCD...I deal with it : ); 8/25/20, 1:58 PM
Steven Wilson said...: Speaking as a fellow West Virginian who has four holes in one and upwards of a score of hole outs from more than 75 yards, I say it's fortunate any time the ball goes in the hole from that distance it's primarily a function of percentages. The more times you hit the ball close to the hole the more likely it is to go in. I will admit to being lucky as I have played to about a ten handicap most of my life. A lot of that is a function being a relatively short hitter, but I've always been straight with my irons. So, as I hit irons straight it's highly likely some of them will go in. As a counterpoint I played golf with a player of equal ability for many years and he not only never had a hole in one he claimed to have never holed out from more than fifty yards. I consider him more unlucky than I am lucky.

As far as putting hole in one in quotation marks, that's not a West Virginia thing that's just a poor grasp of punctuation which may present in West Virginians but it's certainly not limited to us.

For those of you who doubt the legitimacy of this, if you listen carefully at the fifteen second mark of the video you can hear the ball clunk against the flagstick. Plus the reaction of everyone is so authentic as to be beyond question. The one person cautioning him about removing the ball before they can take a picture of it is so spot on to the misunderstanding. Once the ball is in the hole there is nothing you can do to invalidate it.

Some have mentioned the rare golf shot the albatross, which is also called a double eagle, which occurs when the player holes out for a three on a par five. There is supposedly an even rarer occurrence on a par 6 hole on Guam which played at nearly 700 yards. In a strong wind a player holed it in two for a triple eagle or perhaps a "Condor."

I've always wondered why more people don't use a cross handed grip as it does seem a natural way to grip the club.

As for Joe Smith at 1:58, it's always been my experience that the players with me are more excited by the holes-in-one than I am. Not OCD on my case, just sort of well that's what I was trying to do.; 8/25/20, 3:09 PM
rehajm said...: I've been closer to a double eagle (10 inches) than to a hole-in-one.

I had an albatross overhang the hole. Haunting...; 8/25/20, 3:15 PM
Steven Wilson said...: Speaking as a fellow West Virginian who has four holes in one and upwards of a score of hole outs from more than 75 yards, I say it's fortunate any time the ball goes in the hole from that distance it's primarily a function of percentages. The more times you hit the ball close to the hole the more likely it is to go in. I will admit to being lucky as I have played to about a ten handicap most of my life. A lot of that is a function being a relatively short hitter, but I've always been straight with my irons. So, as I hit irons straight it's highly likely some of them will go in. As a counterpoint I played golf with a player of equal ability for many years and he not only never had a hole in one he claimed to have never holed out from more than fifty yards. I consider him more unlucky than I am lucky.

As far as putting hole in one in quotation marks, that's not a West Virginia thing that's just a poor grasp of punctuation which may present in West Virginians but it's certainly not limited to us.

For those of you who doubt the legitimacy of this, if you listen carefully at the fifteen second mark of the video you can hear the ball clunk against the flagstick. Plus the reaction of everyone is so authentic as to be beyond question. The one person cautioning him about removing the ball before they can take a picture of it is so spot on to the misunderstanding. Once the ball is in the hole there is nothing you can do to invalidate it.

Some have mentioned the rare golf shot the albatross, which is also called a double eagle, which occurs when the player holes out for a three on a par five. There is supposedly an even rarer occurrence on a par 6 hole on Guam which played at nearly 700 yards. In a strong wind a player holed it in two for a triple eagle or perhaps a "Condor."

And like Joe Smith at 1:58 it's been my experience that my playing partners have always been more excited than I have when I've made holes-in-one or holed out from distance. It's not OCD in my case, more that's what I was trying to do.; 8/25/20, 3:24 PM
NCMoss said...: Only got an ace once in my life (easy par 3) but it was just as fun being in a group when someone else made one since they're buying drinks.; 8/25/20, 4:21 PM