{"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&#8217;s 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&#8217;s team, she gave up golf at the age of 19 to coach gymnasts and trampoline jumpers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;When I lost my hearing it seemed like a good time to play golf again,&#8221; 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 &#8211; England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland &#8211; 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\">&#8220;I had waited four years to go with my dog, who comes with me everywhere, so I wasn&#8217;t willing to leave her in the hotel room, as they suggested,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Of his two holes-in-one, Bates, who reads lips, said, &#8220;Honestly, I couldn&#8217;t believe my luck. They&#8217;re the two toughest par 3s on the course, and I usually need five strokes on them.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Everyone 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&#8217;s when I told them it wasn&#8217;t one but that I had made two holes-in-one.&#8221; <\/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&#8217;s 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":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"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}]}}