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11-Year-Old Nails Hole-in-One On His 3rd Time Golfing

newsweek.com — Golfing for just the third time, 11-year-old Allan Saylor was whacking the ball around with a friend, not even keeping score. A hole-in-one? No big deal. The sixth-grader fired the ace Wednesday on the 150-yard, par-3 sixth hole at the neighboring Mandan Municipal Golf Course, using a driver borrowed from his buddy.

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  • goph, on 08/07/2008, -2/+62Too bad you're not allowed to borrow clubs from other golfers...DISQUALIFIED, SON.
  • samoan27, on 08/07/2008, -2/+20That's so much easier than putting, he should just try getting the ball in the whole on the first shot every time.
    • Perdido, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1Dugg for the Happy Gilmore reference.
  • sjbdallas, on 08/07/2008, -1/+50Poor kid will spend the rest of his life trying to do it again.
  • BestJaxx, on 08/08/2008, -3/+14Seriously, not a huge deal. It's all about luck. (OK, not ALL luck, but it has a lot to do with it.)
    • cloudberries, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1Not just luck - the fact is, given the number of people (11 year olds included) who start off playing golf every day, it's bound to happen to someone in the world at some point. It's all down to the nature of people, we look for chance and coincidence in all places.

      It's like winning the lottery. It's 14 million to one, but it's going to happen to someone, somewhere.
      • jamesdew, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2well its pretty good for an 11 year old to hit the ball that far on a par 3 course, so we at least have to give him that.
      • cloudberries, on 08/08/2008, -1/+0Nay! I shall not concede anything. The most he's getting from me is a pat on the head and a "well done"

        I think I'd make a terribly uncongratulatory father, hmm...
    • chaos7, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1actually it is all 100% luck
  • MadMan6680, on 08/08/2008, -2/+4"Allan, whose favorite hobbies have been pheasant hunting and football"
    golf is a little different than those
  • AbelVoicu, on 08/08/2008, -4/+1With a name like Ethan Luck, it looks like his friend is his lucky charm.

    And why are 11-year-olds playing golf?
    • zadadka, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5And why shouldn't they?...I take mine.
    • MrWhite7, on 08/08/2008, -2/+2I started playing at 3... won my first tourney at 5...
      • danmk, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5Mini-put dosen't count, and playing against your parents dosen't make it a tournament.
      • obsolite, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Well it might be considered a tournament. I guess it depends on how many guys your mom sleeps with...
      • MrWhite7, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1It was an 18-hole par 3 course against about 20 others.
    • FlyingPhotog, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Why not? They're not missing school. God forbid they get some exercise outdoors.
      • strangewill, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1A game where you swing then get in a CAR to drive after it? A poor excuse for exercise.

        A good thing to spend time doing, but doesn't really qualify as exercise. You'd have to play like 20 hours of golf.
      • JM13, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1@strangewill: It's this thing called walking.... you *can* carry your clubs, and most people still do.
  • bperin, on 08/08/2008, -3/+18Ace on a par 3. Good for the kid but honestly no big deal, this is not digg front page material
    • jamesdew, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2clearly it is
    • ConfusedCartman, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Yeah, for a second there I was making sure I wasn't on "The Onion".
  • goerg, on 08/08/2008, -3/+3video or it didnt happen
  • XeroSerenity, on 08/08/2008, -4/+1burried for lulz

    well, on my part
  • 420ilerBuzzed, on 08/08/2008, -2/+2And now his father will beat the Tiger Woods into him.
  • npowel, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3Ah, the wonders of probability. Hardly means that this kid's the next Tiger Woods.
  • DroppedGT, on 08/08/2008, -3/+1Age limit on lottery tickets????
  • Loopholes, on 08/08/2008, -2/+10Slow news day?
  • Ryanx0r, on 08/08/2008, -2/+4Wow, next time I get lucky.. I'll call the local news and tell them my story... *yawn*
  • lordgreg, on 08/08/2008, -1/+5I once woke up and thought to myself "i have this strange feeling it's going to raind today, even if it looked sunny". GUESS WHAT!!! It was rain! Sadly, i didn't called our tv station to tell him BREAKING NEWS on how i can find out what kind of weather it's going to be o_O
  • zulfy26, on 08/08/2008, -0/+27why (next page)
    is this (next page)
    on four (next page)
    pages?
    • Millsee, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4I (next page)
      don't (click to skip advert)
      know.
    • ylikone, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1Probably some kind of company rule, to make sure people see more ads or to allow the selling of more ad space.
  • driftwood07, on 08/08/2008, -0/+11how they squeezed all that on only 4 pages i will never know
  • Millsee, on 08/08/2008, -0/+6In other news:

    Man manages to get a turkey in bowling after first attempt, and is continuing to try and do it again.
  • Grummond, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3So, wasn't this bound to happen? Somewhere at some time?
    Doesn't really impress me muchly.
    Sorta like "man wins lottery...unlikely but bound to happen for someone".
  • mattlohkamp, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Whoa, "fired the ace"? Isn't eleven a little too young for that sort of thing?
  • pitdog, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Beginners luck.
    • Fhwqhgads, on 08/08/2008, -0/+220 bucks says he can't do it again.
  • billybobbernard, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4That whole thing really reads like an Onion article...

    "Allan, whose favorite hobbies have been pheasant hunting and football, said he let out a "whoop" and high-fived his friend, 11-year-old Ethan Luck, when he saw the ball disappear in the hole"
    • obsolite, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Beep, beep. Whoop, whoop. Why you all in my ear? Talkin a whole buncha ***** that I ain't tryin' ta hear.
  • gofarhaveacigar, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5Why the hell is this on newsweek?



    Breaking News: A friend of mine has never played basketball before, but a few minutes ago, he THREW a crumbled up ball of paper into a trash can that he borrowed from a buddy of his.

  • anarcurt, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5159 diggs? really?
  • juliustan, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4wait, is this news?
  • dpmcalli, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1Is-your-space-bar-broken-or-something?
  • Treoinmypocket, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2That little rat bastard cheated.
  • ObstacleTwo, on 08/08/2008, -0/+0C'mon this has to be a joke, "high-fived his friend, 11-year-old Ethan Luck"

    Ethan LUCK? Seriously..
  • KungFuJ35u5, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Did a second grader write this? It narrates very poorly with little to no transitions. The whole thing reads like each sentence is a paragraph.
  • BIGRed1022, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3But will he blend?
    • obsolite, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2***** you, 2 of my friends died on their third time golfing.
      • BIGRed1022, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1They should have waited until the lightning storm passed.
      • jstearns, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Mother Nature was all like Slooooooow Doooooooooown..
  • Residents, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1"I'm 46 years old and I've been playing since I was four and I've never made a hole-in-one, and I've made a lot of money playing golf,"

    That just tells the story right there. It is amazing that he hit a hole in 1 but it also has little to do with actual skill. I've seen people (definitely not me) hit balls right up on the green on a par 3 and end up 2ft away from the hole. They could repeat this fairly often always getting it close, but a hole in 1.... never happened.
  • sdquinn, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Par 3? Who cares?
  • VigRoco, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Lucky
  • MysticSavage, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Video or it didn't happen, you little prick.

    /golfing for 30 years, still no hole in one.
  • ConfusedCartman, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1For a second there, I had to make sure I wasn't reading "The Onion".
  • wafflepiano, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1In other news, luck exists.
  • lornali, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Good beginning.
  • spartacvs33, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1even the sun shines on a dog's ass every now and then...
  • tao52nyc, on 08/09/2008, -0/+0The poor kid is now a "golf victim", with his dad no doubt pressuring him from here on in to be the next Tiger Woods. My dad tried to push me into golf when I was that age. I had a similar experience - sank a 30-ft putt. But fortunately for me, I was resistant, at that age, to such concepts as "practice".
  • axley, on 08/10/2008, -0/+0luck?
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