Betty scores a hole-in-one — with her putter!
If the odds of making a hole-in-one are one in 12,750 for the average amateur golfer and one in 3756 for a professional, what are the odds of a 70-year-old woman holing out with a putter?
One would imagine they would be astronomical, to say the least.
But it was done this week by Wardell woman Betty O’Grady at the Woodburn-Evans Head course.
Betty will be putting August 3, 2007, into her memory bank as a day to remember – while she has left a lot of people ‘dumbfounded’ with her achievement.
While playing in the Lady Veteran Golfers Open Day at the Woodburn-Evans Head Golf Club, the 71-year-old from Wardell hit a hole-in-one on the 100m 14th hole.
It’s her first hole in one in the 16 years she has been playing golf, but it wasn’t a five-iron, a seven-iron or a nine-iron she had drawn from her bag to play the shot.
Betty had stood at the tee and hit the ball with her putter.
Yes, she had played the 100m shot with the club normally reserved for the green.
She is actually well-known around the course for using her 40-year-old putter off that particular tee – and she gets some strange looks from her playing partners as she lines up her shot.
“I feel I’ve got more control,” she said of her reason for favouring the putter.
“That’s just what I do.”
She got the putter off her husband, who had given the game away.
PICTURE: Betty with the ball she holed out with — and her lucky putter.
