Tee Time: 12:46
Players: Jy, Wayne, Christina
Wow, what a day! This will be a longer post….(just a warning).
We play with Wayne and Christina every few months or so and they are a nice couple we met at our kids school. Our kids are friends and we play golf and ski together so it’s a lot of fun and it’s a lot of fun hanging out with them, etc.
A few weeks ago I scheduled this round. Initially I had scheduled the round with no caddie but Wayne wanted to opt for a caddie so I changed it to a caddie round (this will be relevant later).
The weather forecast was bad though. It was showing a little bit of rain and low temperatures and on the drive to the course, it rained pretty much the entire way. I wasn’t sure if we would even play this round.
We got to the course and it was snowing! It was actually snowing hard at times but the snow wasn’t sticking. We met them at the course and had lunch in the clubhouse. The snow turned to rain and more or less stopped and became just a drizzle by the time we started so we tee’d off.
I was terrible. My driver was mostly in play but I wasn’t getting any distance and I was barely staying in bounds. I just didn’t feel dialed in and just felt off. The rest of my game wasn’t very good either so it was just a frustrating front 9.
At the turn, we had about a 10 minute break and we discussed whether we should keep playing or call it a day and we chose to keep playing (this is also relevant later…)
So we started the back 9 on vision course. Hole 2 is a par 3 going downhill with water on the left and woods on the right. The green slopes right to left so you need to hit the right side of the green for the ball to roll left. Usually I end up missing the green and landing in the area just to the right of the green between the green and the cart path to the right. As a side story, I actually once hit a caddie on this hole because I tee’d off because the front team already left but for some reason the caddie came back out of the cart as I hit and my ball bounced on the cart path and then hit her hand.
Anyway, Wayne and I hit first since we hit off the white tees. He hit first and pushed his ball into the woods on the right. I hit next and landed it well on the right side of the green and my ball rolled left, passed the hole, and stopped a few feet to the left of the hole. Nice birdie chance for me!
Then the girls tee’d off. Jeeyoon tee’d off first and she hit a nice ball to the right side of the green similar to where I landed my ball so her ball also rolled left and just as I thought the ball would pass the hole, it dropped into the hole! A HOLE IN ONE!!! Wow! We all started screaming and the caddie was screaming too! WOWOWOWOWOW!
Christina tee’d off next and hit one into the fairway short of the green.
I was still in disbelief as we rode the cart down to the green. I sort of thought maybe the ball would be hidden behind the flag pole or something like that but nope…no ball in sight. Jeeyoon walked over and found her ball in the cup! So yes, it was a hole in one! Her first hole in one and the first I have ever seen in person at a real golf course!
There was no hole in one prize on this hole unfortunately (sometimes golf courses have prizes like a bedroom set, golf bag, etc.) but we did get an official certificate from the golf course as well as a small lucky bag for the golf ball.
As is customary for Korean customs, we paid for the round and bought dinner at a nice hanwoo beef restaurant after the round. The caddie also got a really big and fat tip as well!
And to think….if we had played no caddie, it would not have counted in that the golf course would not have issued an official hole in one certificate. If we had cancelled after the front 9, it wouldn’t have happened, etc.