{"id":21002,"date":"2015-07-03T08:18:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T08:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/former-marine-makes-three-holes-in-one-in-one-round\/"},"modified":"2015-07-03T08:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T08:18:48","slug":"former-marine-makes-three-holes-in-one-in-one-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/former-marine-makes-three-holes-in-one-in-one-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Marine makes three holes-in-one in one round!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4566\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/patrick-wills-3-holes-in-one-facebook.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin-right:10px\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/patrick-wills-3-holes-in-one-facebook.jpg 640w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/patrick-wills-3-holes-in-one-facebook-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>It could be the best round of golf in history. To make three holes-in-one in an 18-hole round is an almost unbelievable feat. That is what an American from Virginia has done.  <\/p>\n<p>Patrick Wills, 59, signed for 57 strokes, 14 under par, which included three holes-in-one in a round of a 6,021-yard amateur tournament at Laurel Hill Golf Club in Lorton, Va.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the three holes-in-one of this former Marine&#8217;s incredible round took place on par fours.<\/p>\n<p>Wills, who is a +4 handicap, was playing the round with his two sons and an Air Force major.<\/p>\n<p>After one of his sons told him that his tee shot on the 289-yard, par-4, 289-yard 7th sank the hole, &#8220;my heart jumped a little in disbelief,&#8221; Wills said.<\/p>\n<p>When he holed the 334-yard, par-4 10th from the tee, Wills felt &#8220;surprised, stymied, incredulous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And when on the par-3, 187-yard 14th, his five-iron shot ended up directly in the hole he felt like this: &#8220;It&#8217;s one of those surreal experiences, everything was moving in slow motion and I was trying to take it all in&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4568\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/News_scorecard.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin-right:10px\" width=\"624\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/News_scorecard.jpg 624w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/News_scorecard-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/>&#8220;It was a shock to me,&#8221; said Laurel Hill PGA director Gen Orrico, who verified the card.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Patrick has been coming here for a long time; he is an honorable and respected man,&#8221; Orrico said.<\/p>\n<p>In the 47 years he has been playing golf, Wills had shot 22 holes-in-one before his incredible round of three.<\/p>\n<p>The star told Yahoo Sports that he understands people&#8217;s skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People can believe what they want to believe &#8211; I fought for that freedom,&#8221; Wills said. &#8220;But I know what I did in the round, my fellow players know it and so do the participants in the tournament.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could be the best round of golf in history. To make three holes-in-one in an 18-hole round is an almost unbelievable feat. That is what an American from Virginia has done. Patrick Wills, 59, signed for 57 strokes, 14 under par, which included three holes-in-one in a round of a 6,021-yard amateur tournament at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4567,"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-21002","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\/21002","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=21002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}