“At HGC, if you are ever lucky enough to get a hole-in-one, you want it to be on the 8^th where you can normally see your tee shot from first hit to last roll. In 2004, as Club Captain, I remember playing the October Medal in typical October weather – leaden skies, wind and rain. As a 14-handicap, fair weather golfer, I’d been battling all afternoon when I took out my 6 iron on the 8^th. On my downswing, a huge gust of wind blew and I saw my ball start to fall off the tee! Swing completed and with relief at having made contact with the ball at all, I looked towards the green, but it was dank and grey and there were raindrops on my specs so I couldn’t really see very much. Then I heard my playing partners shout: “You holed it”. Just like my only other hole-in-one on HGC’s 3rd, I saw absolutely nothing.”