Gap-in-one report: Buddies sink aces on group outing at Kananaskis

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Should you had been anyplace in Kananaskis Nation on this big day, you might need heard the hooting and hollering from the fourth tee-box on the Mount Kidd Course. Warren Immerker was having fun with a spherical with seven mates — in back-to-back foursomes — when he stepped as much as the signature gap, thumped a five-iron and watched from 171 yards away as his ball dropped to the underside of the cup for his first ace.

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His buddy, Jesse Byers, arrived at that very same project a couple of minutes later and repeated the feat, swishing a six-iron from 171 to arrange a shared celebration. Making the story much more particular, the pin-cutter that day — employed for the rest of the season in Ok-Nation after he was amongst these evacuated because of the Jasper wildfires — occurred to witness each photographs. Very cool.

Gap 13 at Silver Springs proved fortunate for Mike Whittle, who slugged a seven-hybrid throughout the water hazard and was proper on the cash from 139 yards away. As Whittle put it: “I’m 68 years outdated and have been attempting to ace a Par-3 for 50 years! Tick this accomplishment off the bucket checklist!”

Janie Denoncourt tried to take a smidge off her full driver swing on No. 6 on Shaganappi’s Valley 9 however was frightened her ball had gone a bit additional than the 174 yards required. She was nonetheless looking behind and across the inexperienced when a buddy checked the goal and … there it was. Spot on!

Kyla Jones made brief work of the sixth at Willow Park. Seven-iron was the appropriate name for a 138-yard problem.

Jordan Alford gave the gents one thing to have fun with a males’s night time ace at Lakeside. Alford skipped the placing portion on No. 6, ending his enterprise with one knock of a nine-iron from 130 yards out.

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Ian Hewitt will probably be saying solely good issues about his eight-iron, his weapon of alternative for a 169-yard memory-maker on the fifth on the scorecard at Hamptons.

Doug Staldeker was one-and-done on the No. 4 at Redwood Meadows, which measures 185 yards. Staldeker was flawless with a five-hybrid so as to add a fourth ace to his resume.

Howard Lam additionally upped his profession rely to 4. His newest was a pin-seeking seven-iron on No. 9 at Hamptons, which was taking part in 125 yards.

Robert Owen was the toast of the clubhouse at Carnmoney after potting a pitching wedge — a exact shot in a relentless wind — from the 132-yard blocks on No. 6.

Zach Anderson was good together with his pitching wedge on the 136-yard fifth gap at Douglasdale.

Additionally at Douglasdale, Carrie Rosa cruised by way of No. 11 due to a stellar seven-iron from 80 yards again.

Kane Altwasser clobbered a six-iron on No. 16 at Springbank Hyperlinks after which made the 201-yard commute to retrieve this souvenir ball from the underside of the cup.

Blair Carmichael cruised by way of the third gap on the Hawk’s Nest 9 at Wingfield. Carmichael thumped a four-hybrid from 167 yards away.

Skye Kaus buried a magnificence on No. 12 on the Mount Kidd Course at Kananaskis, discovering the flag-stick with an superior eight-iron from a distance of 162 yards.

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