Lois Peters of Pearl Lake scored a hole-in-one at Kimball Golf Club during a recent couples event. She did it with a seven-wood on the 102-yard par-3 hole #3, a very challenging hole requiring a shot over a gully to a small elevated and sloped green.
Witnessing her shot were her husband Christ Peters and their two couples event opponents. Everyone let out a big cheer when Peters’s ball landed on the green and made its way over the green and then dropped into the hole.
How difficult is it to hit a 102-yard hole-in-one? Think about hitting a golf ball from one end-zone of a football field for 102 yards to the opposite end zone and into a hole 4 1/4 inches in diameter.
This is so difficult that most golfers never get a hole-in-one.
The odds of getting one are said to be 12,500 to 1. Rory Mcllroy, a professional golfer who was ranked number one in the world for 122 weeks, played in 264 professional events hitting 4,752 tee shots before he scored his first hole-in-one, just last week.
Lois Peters has been playing golf for many years, after being introduced to the game by her father Elmer Kaufman of -Watkins (deceased); he helped build the Kimball Golf Club clubhouse 55 years ago.
Peters has golfed in the KGC Ladies’ League and in special events for many years. She continues her interest in golf – even as she spends more time with her family, including her five children and eight grandchildren.
Kimball Golf Club does not maintain records about how many grandmas have scored a -hole-in-one, but Peters may be the only one to have done so.
But there is another reason Lois Peters is likely to hold the Kimball Golf Club Ladies’ holes-in-one record: This is her second hole-in-one at Kimball Golf Club.
Peters hit her first hole-in-one on the same hole in 2014.
In recognition of her recent hole-in-one, KGC Manager Neil Helgeson presented Peters with a Kimball Golf Club Hole-In-One trophy, with her hole-in-one ball mounted on it.
He presented the trophy to Peters on behalf of all golfers at Kimball Golf Club – most of whom know it is unlikely they will ever get a hole-in-one, but will have lots of golfing fun at Kimball Golf Club trying.