{"id":20874,"date":"2013-09-19T15:02:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/deaf-golfer-scores-two-holes-in-one-in-the-same-round\/"},"modified":"2013-09-19T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:02:20","slug":"deaf-golfer-scores-two-holes-in-one-in-the-same-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/deaf-golfer-scores-two-holes-in-one-in-the-same-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaf golfer scores two holes-in-one in the same round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3014\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/News_tumblr_mtdmoyealg1qj16vwo1_1280.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin-right:10px;\" width=\"450\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/News_tumblr_mtdmoyealg1qj16vwo1_1280.jpg 450w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/News_tumblr_mtdmoyealg1qj16vwo1_1280-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>A 52-year-old deaf golfer from Huddersfield, England, has broken a record that at first glance seems impossible: making two holes-in-one in the same round of golf. The odds of achieving this are around 67 million to one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The lucky lady\u2019s name is Bet Bates, she works part-time in a maternity hospital and recorded holes-in-one on the 206-yard 8th hole and the 122-yard 14th hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">Bates , who saw his handicap lowered from 16 to 13.4 after his tournament victory, lost his hearing in 2009, and began playing golf again after a long hiatus from a promising junior career to concentrate on other sports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Despite her impressive junior golf career, in which she recorded as many as six holes-in-one and was even selected to play for the Yorkshire women\u2019s team, she gave up golf at the age of 19 to coach gymnasts and trampoline jumpers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhen I lost my hearing it seemed like a good time to play golf again,\u201d said the incredible player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Earlier this year she was selected for the England deaf golf team in the Four Nations Cup \u2013 England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland \u2013 contested last month. However, Bates withdrew from the team after being told she would not be allowed to take her dog, Biscuit, a two-year-old cocker, onto the golf course with her, unlike at other tournaments. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI had waited four years to go with my dog, who comes with me everywhere, so I wasn\u2019t willing to leave her in the hotel room, as they suggested,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Of his two holes-in-one, Bates, who reads lips, said, \u201cHonestly, I couldn\u2019t believe my luck. They\u2019re the two toughest par 3s on the course, and I usually need five strokes on them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cEveryone at the club knew I had made a hole-in-one, because we let the two people behind us pass us when it happened. They told the others and when I got to the clubhouse everyone congratulated me, and that\u2019s when I told them it wasn\u2019t one but that I had made two holes-in-one.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 52-year-old deaf golfer from Huddersfield, England, has broken a record that at first glance seems impossible: making two holes-in-one in the same round of golf. The odds of achieving this are around 67 million to one. The lucky lady\u2019s name is Bet Bates, she works part-time in a maternity hospital and recorded holes-in-one on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}