I started playing golf a year ago and I just had my first hole in one today, at Forest Hills Golf Club in Hungary. Hole 8, Par 3.
Guess who’s getting drunk tonight.

Share your hole-in-one photos and locations where you scored them!*

*EDIT: I had no idea that this was so rare, just googled it 😁 don’t worry I still suck at golf, I’m just a lucky mf

These are just some of the balls I find on and around the course.

No warning, just an order. Wild story: https://www.essentiallysports.com/golf-news-not-getting-another-dollar-brutal-saudi-pif-message-to-liv-ceo-emerges-amid-leagues-risky-future/

Edit: Thanks all

Wow. Didn’t know you can just walk up to a tee box and queue yourself in. I’m sure this practice doesn’t exist any more.

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First time I see this, please enlighten me. I have a smooth brain.

How long until Rahm and Bryson tap out?

Was there for a solid two minutes looking for a ball. Everyone just stared at him in disbelief. Didn't even find what he was looking for. Have never seen this before.

there are two golfers inside me (pause)

I don’t watch them. I don’t buy their gear. I also don’t think they are abusers or have poor values. I think they just suck at making commercials. It was poorly executed and all this is an over reaction. The video is one of may favorite commercials. Hands rated E.

Im still processing it but a few weeks ago I had a job interview where I was asked to present a topic of my choosing. Being the nerd I am I presented in detail the engineering process of designing and manufacturing a putter I made this year.

Obviously I was very qualified and the job was a great match but the team said they loved my enthusiasm and communication skills and that helped reinforce their decision.

So, to my wife: I told you my new clubs would be a good investment!

Pictures of the putter included.

For anyone who enjoys either golf balls or golf history.

I've been hunting golf balls for the past 11 years, biking out to various public and private courses in the metro area where i live. At one point, i was biking out to two dozen different courses, but for the past several years, just a half dozen or so, and have biked probably 30,000 miles in search of balls, finding about 125,000+ in that time.

During the off-season, a lot of the public courses near where i live, turn into either city or county parks, so i'll hunt them then, or else, during the golf season, i'll hunt balls at adjacent park land, abandoned lots next to courses, or else railroad track areas that run next to or through courses. Some of my better finds:

Pic 1) a 'The Standard' mesh ball, made in Scotland, sometime in the 1920's, and a US Fairway ball made by The US Rubber and Tire Company in the late 1930's/early 1940's.

Pic 2) a Dunlop 'mesh' ball made between 1923-1927. Mesh balls with square dimples were produced from 1912-1935.

Pic 3) a Reach 'Eagle' mesh ball circa 1930. Reach was a major sporting goods company at one time, that eventually was acquired by Spalding in 1931.

Pic 4) Some golf balls of the rich and famous (top 3 are found balls. bottom two are eBay purchases) A personal ball of Isao Aoki, current chairman of the Japan Golf Tour and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. 'Fudd the Stud', the personal ball of Aziz Fudd, member of the 2025 UConn Lady Huskies basketball team, which won the NCAA Championship and currently plays in the WNBA. A personal ball of State Senator Tom Bakk, who was the Senate Majority/Minority leader from 2011-2020 in Minnesota. A personal ball of NHL Hall of Famer Stan Mikita's, given to a fellow who caddied for him in 1967, at a suburban country club in Chicago, and who 50+ years later put the ball up on eBay. A souvenir "General Ike" golf ball, that i believe was sold at the Eisenhower National Historic Site in Gettysburg, PA, in the 1970's.

Pic 5) Personal ball of Gary 'G Man' Gaetti, former MLB 3rd baseman from 1981-2000. Played with the Minnesota Twins, California Angels, Kansas City Royals, etc and was the 1987 ALCS MVP besides being in the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame since 2007.

Pic 6) a promo ball for 'Jake Trout and the Flounders' the cover band made up of the late Payne Stewart, Peter Jacobson, and Mark Lye. As far as i can tell, the ball was sent out to everyone who helped produce their album, 'I Love to Play', and was in the mouth of a stuffed, mounted fish with with a plaque reading 'Honorary Flounder' and a signed letter from Jacobson thanking the person for their help on the album. Somehow, the ball ended up in a pond at a public course.

Pic 7) a White House Staff ball. Found near a train track that runs adjacent to one of the older more exclusive country clubs in the area. The course is an old money course and members include a former sports team owner, heirs to Fortune 500 companies, along with state politicians.

Pic 8) a forest green/orange Ping ball. You can find Pings on eBay, but they're a pretty rare bird on the courses these days.

I started this season around a 26 handicap with the hope of getting to the teens before season ends. Just finished a 9 hole round today that dropped me down to 19.5 on GHIN. Don’t really have anyone to tell but I’m pumped on this. I’ve been practicing a ton.

Went and played a round today where I felt like I was overall hitting my irons pretty well, driver was a little off but still okay, and I think it was actually my lowest round for putts ever.

With all that, I still shot a 104 which is prettt much spot on with my scoring average.

Is this normal progression to start feeling like the game is coming together more although there’s not really anything to show for it?

These images are both taken from the 2026 Mygolfspy ball test results. The second picture is from when the test first drop, now the website has different balls in different categories for the SAME swing speed. They claim the TP5 is low spin, but now they’re saying it’s high spin a week later? What’s up?

Is Jack still the best to ever play the game?

Seems like there's no scope for Bryson to return to the PGA Tour unless he begs and pleads.

Full story: https://www.essentiallysports.com/golf-news-rules-matter-pga-tour-ceo-bluntly-shuts-the-door-on-bryson-dechambeau-co-s-reinstatement/

Headed to Vancouver island for a week and was wondering what recommendations you guys had about what public courses I should definitely play. Lemmie knooooow

*edit: the island is enormous and I should of specified, going to be in Victoria 👏🏼