{"id":20948,"date":"2015-09-23T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T10:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/makes-two-holes-in-one-in-a-round-and-is-reluctant-to-count-it\/"},"modified":"2015-09-23T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T10:38:19","slug":"makes-two-holes-in-one-in-a-round-and-is-reluctant-to-count-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/makes-two-holes-in-one-in-a-round-and-is-reluctant-to-count-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Makes two holes-in-one in a round and is reluctant to count it."},"content":{"rendered":"

Unbelievable, but true. There are times when the goddess Fortune smiles on you, and without a doubt Jim Corcoran, a 64-year-old American from Omaha, Nebraska, has enjoyed great luck. He was playing with his grandson Jackson, 9 years old, when he holed directly off the tee of the 123-meter 4th hole. Until he looked at the hole, Jim didn’t know he had hit an ace. They then played the 5th hole without a hitch, and on the next hole, a 94-meter hole, Grandpa made another hole-in-one. I said to my grandson, “Jack, did the ball go in,” and he said, “Yes, Grandpa. And I said, ‘This is unbelievable. <\/p>\n

They were the third and fourth holes-in-one he scored in his 36 years as a golfer. With his first hole-in-one, in a tournament in 2012, he won a prize of $20,000. His second was in 2013, this time with no cash prize. <\/p>\n

Jim didn’t plan to tell his family and friends about his two holes-in-one, but his regular playing partners at Platteview Country Club encouraged him to tell of his feat.<\/p>\n

His golf colleagues said that anyone who knew him would believe it, whether the holes-in-one had been verified or not.<\/p>\n

The only one who didn’t seem impressed was his grandson. “Jack didn’t realize the magnitude of the accomplishment; what he really loves is basketball,” his grandfather acknowledged. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unbelievable, but true. There are times when the goddess Fortune smiles on you, and without a doubt Jim Corcoran, a 64-year-old American from Omaha, Nebraska, has enjoyed great luck. He was playing with his grandson Jackson, 9 years old, when he holed directly off the tee of the 123-meter 4th hole. Until he looked at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4772,"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-20948","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\/20948","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=20948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}