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PGA confirms oldest person to fire a hole-in-one

Published 16:10 21 Dec 2014 GMT

Gareth Makim
PGA confirms oldest person to fire a hole-in-one

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SportsJOE has been hacking around golf courses for 15 years without success, so it's nice to know there is still plenty of time for us to get that elusive hole-in-one.

Florida golfer Gus Andreone has been confirmed as the oldest player to ever shoot an ace following his hole-in-one at the ripe old age of 103. Remarkably, it is the eighth of Andreone's lifetime, and it comes an incredible 75 years after his first. He beat the record held by Elsie McLean, who recorded the feat in 2007 aged 102. He hit driver on the 114-yard 14th hole at the Lakes Course at Palm Aire in Sarasota on Wednesday, en route to a remarkable round of 83.
'I hit it solid and the ball then hit the ground about 30 yards from the green and kept rolling, rolling and rolling,' Andreone told Golf Digest. 'It fell into the hole, which was cut on the right middle part of the green. Miracles do happen once in a while.'
  [h/t PGA of America]

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