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TexasTowelie

(112,208 posts)
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 03:38 AM Oct 2016

91-year-old woman hits first hole in one in 74 years of playing golf

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. -- Esther Pelletier wasn't in the best of moods after missing multiple shots on the golf course at Middleton Golf Club in Massachusetts. As she started walking with her pull-cart to the next tee, not realizing the brake was on, she even got madder.

"Maybe it's time I quit," Pelletier, of Andover, told her regular playing partners, Nancy Rainville, of North Andover, and Elizabeth Weilbacher, of Gloucester.

Rainville and Weilbacher convinced her otherwise. Thankfully. Pelletier's next shot proved to be, well, one of the most memorable of her golfing career.

A hole in one. The first of her career.

Read more: http://www.dailyindependent.com/cnhi_network/year-old-woman-hits-first-hole-in-one-in-years/article_20bf58a0-2fb1-517b-b774-829903cfe9a1.html

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91-year-old woman hits first hole in one in 74 years of playing golf (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2016 OP
Apparently There's Hope For All of Us ProfessorGAC Oct 2016 #1
here's to her joeybee12 Oct 2016 #2
Pretty way cool! Lady's got good genes, her sister lived to be 101. marble falls Oct 2016 #3
My aunt did it at 82 world wide wally Oct 2016 #4
When I'm 110 I intend to shoot my age Auggie Oct 2016 #5

ProfessorGAC

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1. Apparently There's Hope For All of Us
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 07:53 AM
Oct 2016

Been playing since i was 8. I'm 60 and a 4 handicap. Never had one. Had more eagles than i can count, but never on the par 3 that makes for an ace.

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