On Monday, a story ran — written by yours truly — in The Daily News about Mary Garrett and Morgan McKay, two local golfers who made a hole-in-one on the same hole on the same day at Jamestown Golf Course.
Turns out, I made a slight error in the story, claiming that Bill Lyons was one of Garrett's witnesses and not Jack Lyons. Well, Mr. Lyons was kind enough to give his take on the shot:
"We all teed off and landed on the green — it's a short hole," Lyons wrote to me in an e-mail. "We looked for Mary's ball, but it was nowhere to be found. Strange because there is no rough or high grass on the fifth hole. Bill Young putted for a birdie, and in the hole was Mary's ball. Our jaws dropped and the celebration began.
"She is a real dignified lady, and was gracious enough to buy us a cold one in the clubhouse. We told her to retire the ball never use it again."
The fifth hole at Jamestown, which, for ladies, is a 100-yard shot, has some history when it comes to aces. In another e-mail, Lisa Pritchard wrote about her father, Frank Pritchard, who passed away this past March. Turns out Frank Pritchard made his first hole-in-one on the fifth hole at Jamestown, and asked that a bench be placed near "his hole." Since then, a few others have made their first ace on the same hole.
"I like to think my dad had something to do with all this good karma!!!" Lisa wrote.
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