102-Year-Old Calif. Woman Hits Hole-in-1

[BERIGAN]

102-Year-Old Calif. Woman Hits Hole-in-1

CHICO, Calif. — Elsie McLean thought she might have lost her ball on the par-3, 100-yard fourth hole at Bidwell Park. Instead, the 102-year-old Chico woman became the oldest golfer ever to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course.

Because of the slope of the green, McLean and her partners couldn't see where her ball landed after she teed off.

"Where's my ball?" McLean asked.

Her friends, Elizabeth Rake and Kathy Crowder, found it in the cup.

"I said, 'Oh, my Lord. It can't be true. It can't be true.' I was so excited. And the girls were absolutely overcome," McLean said.

It was McLean's first ace.

"Well everybody wants a hole-in-one, and I said, 'Why can't I have a hole-in-one?' I came within inches once," McLean told television station KNVN.

McLean, who used a driver, broke the age record of 101 set by Harold Stilson in 2001 at Deerfield Country Club in Florida.

McLean, who has been featured in golf magazines before, will appear on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on April 24 to celebrate her accomplishment.

"For an old lady," she said, "I still hit the ball pretty good."

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[J Larsen]

True story: the very first time I went golfing I came within about four inches of a hole-in-one on the second-to-last hole. (Of course, I think I also hit a few balls onto the wrong fairway.) I've only been about 5 times and don't plan on going again.

[Guy Berger]

I've always assumed that getting holes-in-one was pure luck. I wonder if there is any way to measure whether, once you control for better golfers' skill at getting the ball to the correct general area of the hole, they are any better at getting holes in one.

Guy

[J Larsen]

I've always assumed that getting holes-in-one was pure luck. I wonder if there is any way to measure whether, once you control for better golfers' skill at getting the ball to the correct general area of the hole, they are any better at getting holes in one.

Guy

I think your control variable would be the percentage of the time that a golfer gets on the green on the first stroke on a par 3 hole. Getting on the green in one stroke on a par three is skill, and the hole in one is something that happens every now and then as a consequence.

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Pure Luck! But how bout we toss the whole curve and figure the chances of getting it in the hole on the fly, without a bounce!!!

My one and only, long ago, did that. Eight iron, par 3, 138 yards. Front apron trap. Luckily the course in Myrtle Beach had them fancy fat flag sticks that narrow at the bottom - kind of a lobster trap effect. Actually uttered an expletive cuz I thought I hit it thin. Truth is the hole before was a triple bogey on a par 5 as well as assorted misfires. Pretty wacky looking card when it was all over.

Beer chummed quite a few shrubs outside shag bars that night.

[Late]

Beer chummed quite a few shrubs outside shag bars that night.

I want to understand this sentence, but unfortunately don't.

Help!

(It sounds either like John Ashberry or Clem, though the latter will hate me for making that comparison.)