We had a shot gun start at 8:30 AM, the tee sheet being jammed with two groups on each hole. It was Saturday, May 13 th, a beautiful morning in Calgary. It’s still very surreal that I got my hole-in-one. Thank you for the email and reaching out.
Thank you again for reaching out! I appreciate it! Good thing there weren’t many people in the clubhouse when we came in or else it would have been an expensive bar tab. It was so surreal and just like that the match was all square onto hole #17. The ball landed three feet to the right pin high, spun left off the ridge, and just disappeared! Josh said, “Oh, that could be in” once I hit it. The most satisfying part of it all was that I said to Josh right before I hit it “Smooth 8-iron over the bunker.” I was playing a draw for the majority of the round with my short irons and I hit the exact shot I wanted to hit.
The pin was located on the middle left and there was a ridge feeding the ball down towards the hole. Hole #16 at The Pulpit is very similar to hole #12 (Golden Bell) at Augusta, where you have to hit over some water with a bunker guarding the green in front and two bunkers behind. I was the last to go in the group, Josh had hit the green and I had the opportunity to put the pressure on. I previously made an up-and-down to save par on 15. We were playing a money game and Noah and Connor were 1 up headed into 16. The yardage was 164 yards and I hit an 8-iron. My good friend from university, Joshua Hardy, invited me out to the club that day alongside his other two buddies, Noah Maunder and Connor Logan. It was so unexpected and a moment I will remember for the rest of my life. I am more than happy to share the details. So, this Friday, everyone is meeting at hole #2 at 6pm for Fletcher, Joey and Zara to get pushed/jump in the pond.
#Birdy bounce out of hole pro#
Our assistant, Pro Fletcher, had promised Zara that if she ever got a hole-in-one, she could push him in the pond on hole #2. The story is even more exciting, as a few years ago, a member, Joey, mentioned that he jumped in the pond once he got a hole-in-one. I could see it through my camera phone, and you can see Zara’s surprised expression as she realized it went in the hole.
We hope to find a program that will track and show the ball, as you can barely see it in the air on the left, then it drops and rolls to the hole. I actually recorded a video of the hole-in-one, as I often video her golfing, and especially usually on par 3’s as Zara has been obsessed with wanting to get a hole-in-one since she first learned about them. The yardage was about 129 yards and she hit the ball with a 9 iron. Zara was playing a round by herself at her beautiful home course and I was driving her in a cart, like I often do. She was super excited about getting a hole-in-one. This is her mother, Nancy Kenley, helping her respond to the email as Zara is 12 years old and going into grade 7. Thank you for acknowledging Zara’s hole-in-one.
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