We’ve waxed at length about the glories of fall golf. The cooler temps, the plentiful tee times, the ever-exploitable leaf rule. The season brings a cornucopia of welcome changes to your local C.C., but it’s not all autumnal splendor and hot apple cider.

Fall is also green-punching season across the Northern Hemisphere, leaving unsuspecting golfers frustrated as they try to navigate bumpy, beat-up putting surfaces. Usually this results in a missed par putt here or a botched birdie putt there, but this unlucky golfer got robbed of a hell of a lot more when an aerated green and shoddily installed cup denied them the hole-in-one of a lifetime. Watch and wince.

⛳️☠️😲 Are you counting this as a hole-in-one?

“Dude, that’s bullshit! No way! There’s no f—king way bro” 🫨

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— NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) October 2, 2024

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Par 4, 278 yards, first shot of the day. A smoked hybrid down the hill, tracking for the pin and then wham, this happens. Forget packing up and going home. You should walk right into the ocean. Of course, then you wouldn’t get the chance to give the superintendent an earful. We always try to give greenskeepers the benefit of the doubt, but this is indefensible.

All of this comes with an asterisk, of course. The reaction of this lone ranger seems to be genuine, and he shouts “you guys didn’t put it there?” to the group in front of him, but we never see or hear another golfer. All of which raises an even more troubling question: What if this HAD gone in? With no witnesses, would this incredible par-4 ace have counted? Perhaps this janky cup did the poor guy a favor after all …

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