Golfer shoots 57 with 3 aces, including 2 on par 4s

Short course, but still amazing
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If someone told you they shot 57 for a round of golf, there are two natural reactions:

1. Facetiously ask, "Was that for nine holes?" and then laugh;

2. Slap them in the face and call them a liar.

However, Virginian Patrick Wills did just that, carding a 14-under 57 in a tournament round played at Laurel Hill Golf Course in Lorton, Va., host of the 2013 U.S. Amateur Public Links. Michael Keating, publisher of GolfStyles Media Group, claims the 59-year-old former Marine did it in the second round of a Summer Solstice tournament at the course. Even more amazing? Wills had three holes-in-one during the round, including two on par 4s.

Keating, who was tournament director for the event, set up the tournament, designed to maximize rounds in a single day because of the amount of sunlight, to get easier over the course of the day. In Round 2, players competed off the White tees at a length of 6,021 yards.

Wills went out in 29, making four birdies in the first six holes, along with his lone bogey of the day. On the 278-yard par-4 seventh, Wills made his first of three aces on the day with what he called a "baby-draw 3-wood."

57 round

Bullshit.

Fuck. I have shot 57 in 9 holes. Closest I ever came to an ace I was by myself on the course by my cottage at 7:00 am. Rolled one half an inch to the right of the hole. It went about 18 inches past it. I two putted. Had I made it, nobody would have believed me anyway.

Though the 57 is a lifetime best for Wills, he claims to have "numerous" rounds of 59, as well 22 career aces, including four on par 4s.

Yeah, sure buddy.

kingstonlake wrote:

Though the 57 is a lifetime best for Wills, he claims to have "numerous" rounds of 59, as well 22 career aces, including four on par 4s.

Yeah, sure buddy.

Not with my game, but it's possible

Sorta like those people that have won more than one lottery jackpot but with a skill factor involved

I've shot 57 for 18


.....on the putt putt course.

Yeah, sorta looks like he could be tanfan's brother

Note - there is a link within that story to the website of the tournament director that sells golf magazines.

Apparently the par 4s were blind shots and they couldn't find the ball only to be surprised when his playing partners (his sons) found the balls in the hole. I can see Beavis and Butthead hiding behind the bushes and dropping it in the hole. Either that or his kids were doing it. Or the entire thing is made up.

"What kind of ball were you playing?" "Wow, here it is in the hole again. Another hole in one!"