The hole in one that almost was not
By John T On October 3, 2014
The pin was towards the back of the green and our lead off player, Lou, landed on the green in line with the hole. I joked with him that he should mark his ball and we all laughed. Then I proceeded to hit my ball on the green and it tracked towards the hole. It seemed to disappear as it neared the flag and we all thought it went in the hole.
When we approached the green, Lou got there first and said he saw the ball. He was still a distance away but it seemed to be hanging on the lip when all of a sudden he saw it drop into the hole!
Lou was the only one to see it because the rest of us were too far away yet. We figured the ball went around the back of the hole and we could not see it from the tee. But it must have been on the edge of the hole and just fallen in. It was ironic since I had jokingly told Lou to mark his ball and he is the one who saw the ball drop in the hole.