A Tournament to Remember

A Tournament to Remember

It was the second day of our annual Ladies Home Tournament at our country club in Wisconsin. I was playing with my three best friends at the club, Terri, Sheli, and Shelly. I had just witnessed Terri's hole-in-one on July 8th in a doubles match in which we were partners, so, the hole-in-one fever had not subsided.

We were now on the third of four par threes, a 110 yard downhill shot. A woman had not had a hole in one on this hole in two years. We chatted about how someone was due.

I used a Titleist NXT Tour S ball that I had played with all day. (That is an accomplishment for me.) Sheli had said she thought it might be a one club wind. I reached for my 5 hybrid. Terri said she was playing her usual club. I put the 5 back and took out the 7 hybrid. I teed the ball up and kept my head down. I swung and it felt and sounded good. We watched it head to the right of the green and come back. It hit in front and started to roll toward the pin. It slowed to a trickle and then it dropped in the cup. We screamed and then we cried. Terri and Sheli had had hole-in-ones before, but this was the first time any of the girls had witnessed someone else getting a hole-in-one. A month to the day since I had witnessed Terri's. It was a very special day to have shared it with such special friends.