If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
I had my second hole-in-one yesterday, June 19, 2013 at approximately 7:45am EST :)
I waited 3178 days since my first one. I was patient. The funny thing is I have been announcing it the past two weeks that I was feeling a hole-in-one in my bones.
I'll give you a recap of how it all went down:
It was a beautiful Wednesday morning in South Bend, Indiana. I was planning on playing a practice round with my good friend Tara Goedeken Morris. She got to the course first and grabbed the only cart available which was labeled "3B." It was a shotgun practice round...
We headed out to number 3...played 3...got to 4. The longest par 3 on the course. I got to the tee box first and shot the flag with my Bushnell. 192 yards playing 189...slightly downhill. I grabbed my Ping i20 23 degree hybrid (4 iron) and hit it solid with a baby draw. We saw it bounce short right of the green with a firm bounce forward and to the left...towards the hole. I'm blind but I kept looking at the shot waiting for the ball to appear from the shade into the sunlight. I never saw it roll but assumed it'd be handy somewhere near the hole. Tara starts jumping up and down shaking me yelling "it went in! It went in!" I just stood there with no emotion and no belief in what she was telling me. I grabbed my Bushnell and looked into it to get a better look at the surroundings of the flag. No ball. Hmm. "Okay Tara maybe you're right but I don't know, there's just no way." She was shaking and wanted to hit her tee shot real quick so we could race down to the green in our cart. We almost ran over a huge chipmunk on the way down but that's besides the point. I called my boyfriend Billy as we are driving down just so he could experience the moment as it was happening. He's been playing this golf game for quite some time and still does not have an ace. Poor guy. It was 4:45am in Phoenix but as always, he picked up and I was so thankful that he did! I began screaming in the phone yelling "I think I got a hole-in-one! I think it went in!" His voice went from groggy to "WHAT?! NO WAY!"
I sprinted to the hole and there it was laying in the cup! I began screaming and jumping up and down and running all over the green. Billy was still on the phone so he heard it happen live which was really cool. He was on the bag for me here last year when I made a double eagle on hole 16. This place is good to me...
Tara jumped up and down with me in excitement and I finally got off the phone so we could start taking video and pictures. It was such a cool feeling to see that ball in the cup.
I get so excited in other sports when their are 3 pointers made and touchdowns scored but I don't normally get that crazy, exciting feeling in me over a golf shot. But this one...it was different.
Since it was a shotgun practice round before the afternoon pro am began we had to be off the course by a certain time so we didn't get to complete the 18 holes. It was also a practice round with lots of shots hit so I don't have an official scorecard but I might need to make one up for a shadow box I'll make with the ball! Bloody Mary's were ordered at the turn since drinks were on me and I was glad to have the opportunity. I did get lucky because my normal practice round group would've emptied my wallet at the bar! I'm so thankful my friend Tara was there with me!
I'm liking South Bend...I'm hoping the tournament goes even better for me this weekend!
