Robert P. Goldman

It was the third day of a golf outing with 7 others, and on the first tee during our morning round, I realized I left my cigars and golf shoes in the van. It didn't bother me too much as I was just out to have fun, and I seemed to be hitting the ball pretty well. I was at the 5th hole with alan singer, steve chelinsky and john macdonald. The hole was slightly uphill, and it was partly sunny in the 80's with a slight wind at our backs. We were playing the terracotta tees, and the hole was playing about 167 yds. I stepped up to the tee with a 6-iron since we were playing ready golf and let it rip. The ball had a nice trajectory and appeared to be drawing in toward the pin coming down just before the green, taking a couple of bounces and rolling toward the hole. No one saw it fall into the cup, and I thought I saw it on the back fringe of the green which made me feel pretty good about it. The others hit, landing their shots just before the green. Upon approaching the green, neither john nor myself could see my ball and none of us even thought to look in the cup. After looking beyond the green in the waste area, alan said there was another group on the tee so I should hurry up. John suggested I just drop and hit and added that the ball was probably traveling hot with the draw it had. Rather miffed, I commented that there was no way I could hit a 6-iron 185 yds even if there was a hurricane at my back. I was muttering all the while because, I hit what I thought was a pretty good shot, only now to be looking to salvage a bogie or double bogie on the hole. When steve tended the flag, he said, 'anyone playing maxfli, and he flipped me the ball. ' I exclaimed, 'holy $#! T, I got a hole-in-one! ' then, they all came over and congratulated me with high fives. The adrenelin was pumping, and I wasn't thinking too clearly as I had honors on the next hole where I proceeded to hit my hole-in-one ball into the desert cacti and lose it. However, I did find another maxfli on the course which will serve as my stand-in, hole-in-one ball.