2nd ace

I was playing with my brother, and hit a 9 to a slightly uphill green at 131 yards. The green is across a gully with a small pond at the bottom, and the hole's protection is the dramatic upslope to the green surface coming up from the pond. My ball hit about a foot and a half to the right of the pin with a slight draw and the spin pulled it in. The group immediately in front of us had a good friend in it and he heard us whooping and hollering but didn't see the shot. We have a playing group, the Dogfight, with a hole in one insurance program. The problem was that to qualify for the insurance payout you must be playing either in the Dogfight or with a Dogfight member, and this one wouldn't qualify, as my brother isn't a Dogfight member and my friend didn't witness the shot.

All I could think about was the thrill of the ace but then it dawned on me that my bar bill was going to be huge. On getting back to the clubhouse I was very relieved to find that the bar had closed and most golfers gone home, it being late on a Sunday afternoon. The bar closing was the second great thing that happened to me at the course that day!