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  • 12-06-2012 8:45am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭


    Fair play to him:
    WINNING the Lotto would have been eight times more likely, but a golfer in Inishowen is celebrating hitting an astonishing TWO holes-in-one in the SAME round.
    Gerry Guckian was playing at Greencastle Golf Club on Sunday afternoon when he achieved the amazing feat.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 308 ✭✭Seves Three Iron


    Some story. On an aside, this thing of spending a fortune on drinks in the bar afterwards is some crock of BS. It's a tradition that belongs to a bygone era and should be scrapped immediately. I can think of nothing that would ruin my hole-in-one buzz more than a 500 euro bar bill.

    "I didn't have insurance which meant I lost out on €500 and had to buy drinks for everyone in the clubhouse out of my own pocket," he quipped.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Dr_Colossus


    Some story. On an aside, this thing of spending a fortune on drinks in the bar afterwards is some crock of BS. It's a tradition that belongs to a bygone era and should be scrapped immediately. I can think of nothing that would ruin my hole-in-one buzz more than a 500 euro bar bill.

    "I didn't have insurance which meant I lost out on €500 and had to buy drinks for everyone in the clubhouse out of my own pocket," he quipped.

    +1 There used to be a €250 bar bill cover as part of your Golfsure insurance but that was scrapped in 2012 so it's high time for the tradition itself to go with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,614 ✭✭✭newport2


    +1 There used to be a €250 bar bill cover as part of your Golfsure insurance but that was scrapped in 2012 so it's high time for the tradition itself to go with it.

    What happens if you refuse to buy drinks for everyone?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Sandwlch


    newport2 wrote: »
    What happens if you refuse to buy drinks for everyone?

    The hole in one becomes void and you are disqualified from the competition. There have been cases of class actions being taken by those in the clubhouse bar at the time for compensation against people not buying drinks, but I understand this is rare. Cold shoulder for a few months afterwords to be expected though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭link_2007


    newport2 wrote: »
    What happens if you refuse to buy drinks for everyone?

    Firing squad


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,614 ✭✭✭newport2


    Sandwlch wrote: »
    The hole in one becomes void and you are disqualified from the competition. There have been cases of class actions being taken by those in the clubhouse bar at the time for compensation against people not buying drinks, but I understand this is rare. Cold shoulder for a few months afterwords to be expected though.

    You're kidding me? Disqualified? In the rules of golf?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭BigChap1759


    newport2 wrote: »
    You're kidding me? Disqualified? In the rules of golf?

    I'm assuming it was a wind up :confused:


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,294 Mod ✭✭✭✭charlieIRL


    Sandwlch wrote: »
    The hole in one becomes void and you are disqualified from the competition. There have been cases of class actions being taken by those in the clubhouse bar at the time for compensation against people not buying drinks, but I understand this is rare. Cold shoulder for a few months afterwords to be expected though.

    really? That can't be right.

    When I go for a round of golf I don't even bring a wallet with me, only enough for the comp fee & GUI card, in case my wallet would be stolen out of the car. Last thing anyone wants is to try cancel visa / debit cards. What do you do then? I'd be all on for buying a drink for my playing partners but not everyone in the clubhouse. Sorry if that sounds mean.

    Fair play for getting 2 in a round as well!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭stockdam


    I'd just get into the car and drive off - nobody in their right mind now would go into the clubhouse and tell everybody that they had a hole in one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,614 ✭✭✭newport2


    I'm assuming it was a wind up :confused:

    I'm hoping it was a wind up :confused:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭mikeunt


    Nope
    no wind up
    same in my clubs constitution
    proper order too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭BigChap1759


    mikeunt wrote: »
    Nope
    no wind up
    same in my clubs constitution
    proper order too

    Bizarre :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭IITYWYBMAD


    mikeunt wrote: »
    Nope
    no wind up
    same in my clubs constitution
    proper order too

    +1. A guy in our club had a hole in one. Won the twos competition outright, headed straight home. At the end of the month it emerged that he had not bought the round of drinks, and a special EGM was convened where he was censured for 3 months, and only allowed to play mid-week for a further 6 after that. He eventually left.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,614 ✭✭✭newport2


    mikeunt wrote: »
    Nope
    no wind up
    same in my clubs constitution
    proper order too

    So if you get a hole in one in a competition, unless you've €500 handy to give away then you're disqualified?


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,708 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    IITYWYBMAD wrote: »
    +1. A guy in our club had a hole in one. Won the twos competition outright, headed straight home. At the end of the month it emerged that he had not bought the round of drinks, and a special EGM was convened where he was censured for 3 months, and only allowed to play mid-week for a further 6 after that. He eventually left.

    There is something wrong in this world where a guy or gal that enjoys such perfect shot of a lifetime has this imposed. Talk about old school boll1x?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭mikeunt


    newport2 wrote: »
    So if you get a hole in one in a competition, unless you've €500 handy to give away then you're disqualified?

    got it in one............so to speak:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    What if the club doesn't have a bar? Cups of tea for everyone?

    F*ckin ridiculous rule, if it's true.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭mikeunt


    Su Campu wrote: »
    What if the club doesn't have a bar? Cups of tea for everyone?

    F*ckin ridiculous rule, if it's true.

    well the club has a bar
    but i couldnt agree with you that its a "F*ckin ridiculous rule" as i wouldnt like to be seen to be having ideas which are in conflict with the clubs constitution


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭BigChap1759


    Any chance of telling us which club?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭mikeunt


    Any chance of telling us which club?


    jeez i dont know if i should
    what with all the hate for its constitution on here


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭link_2007


    Surely nobody actually believes the ****e mike is coming out with?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭mikeunt


    [QUOTE=Sandwlch;79161964]The hole in one becomes void and you are disqualified from the competition. There have been cases of class actions being taken by those in the clubhouse bar at the time for compensation against people not buying drinks, but I understand this is rare. Cold shoulder for a few months afterwords to be expected though.[/QUOTE]
    .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,614 ✭✭✭newport2


    link_2007 wrote: »
    Surely nobody actually believes the ****e mike is coming out with?

    This is Ireland, it is that ridiculous it could well be true ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭IITYWYBMAD


    slave1 wrote: »
    There is something wrong in this world where a guy or gal that enjoys such perfect shot of a lifetime has this imposed. Talk about old school boll1x?

    I know. It'd be sad, if it wasn't so untrue....(sorry!!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭curly from cork


    slave1 wrote: »
    IITYWYBMAD wrote: »
    +1. A guy in our club had a hole in one. Won the twos competition outright, headed straight home. At the end of the month it emerged that he had not bought the round of drinks, and a special EGM was convened where he was censured for 3 months, and only allowed to play mid-week for a further 6 after that. He eventually left.

    There is something wrong in this world where a guy or gal that enjoys such perfect shot of a lifetime has this imposed. Talk about old school boll1x?



    I'm a bit sketchy on the details but last summer on a course in donegal where an Irish junior event was talking place a young girl had a hole in one twice on the same hole . Apparently her dad was caddying for her , it was a practice round . She hit one , they felt on the tee it wasn't the right club so she shot off another with a different club . When they got to the green ... Both balls in the hole. It had been witnessed by a few spectators who were standing around. They presumed that two players had holed out and were amazed . But to discover that the girl had done it twice .. Incredible but true !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,830 ✭✭✭abff


    IITYWYBMAD wrote: »
    +1. A guy in our club had a hole in one. Won the twos competition outright, headed straight home. At the end of the month it emerged that he had not bought the round of drinks, and a special EGM was convened where he was censured for 3 months, and only allowed to play mid-week for a further 6 after that. He eventually left.

    That has to be a wind up. I can understand people being a bit annoyed at him for failing to follow protocol (and maybe being a bit stingy, or possibly broke), but if that's true, it's the worst example of alpha male bullsh*t I've heard in ages and it reinforces all the negative stereotypes that non golfers believe about golf cubs.

    PLEASE tell me it's only a wind up.


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