A Foursomes competition, as most of you all know, is where players in a team of two play a singular ball with alternating shots until the ball is holed. And this is all well and good until you have a situation similar to what occurred here on the 10th on Sunday during our Mixed Foursomes Championship.
Yvonne Little, playing in the honour board event with her husband Steve, decided to take things into her own hands when teeing off the 10th and knocked in a Hole in One.
As is quite often the case when amateurs score an ace, no one in the playing group immediately thought it went in the hole. And on the tee – 114m away – it was hard to tell what the final outcome of the shot was. Heather and Graeme Chalmers, who were playing with Yvonne and Steve, weren’t too sure where it went. Yvonne thought it might be up the back of the green, or possibly just over the back. Steve – as helpful a playing partner as ever – stated that it was in the bunker!
But after searching over the back, even over the cart path towards the 11th tee, and having no luck finding the ball Yvonne offhandedly approached the hole where she found her ball sitting snuggly inside against the flagstick. Rather than exclaim in excitement, Yvonne was more bewildered by it and simply stated, “Here it is, in the hole”.
To completely drain all excitement out of the moment, Yvonne’s teammate, husband, and once again helpful playing partner could only declare – “That means I don’t get to have a putt on this hole”
Luckily the lack of excitement didn’t ruin a historic moment, as it wasn’t Yvonne’s first ace. She has previously scored two other Hole in One’s at her previous Clubs in NSW. Though this was her first at Mount Coolum Golf Club.
And in Yvonne’s own words, the prevailing emotion of the moment was relief – “That is my bogey hole. I never score well on the 10th so it is good to have finally gotten a good score on it”.
And you can’t better a 1 – except in Steve’s case where he didn’t even play a shot.