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So it's my first time out this year, and after 4, I'm standing 7 over for the day, just really struggling off the tee, and playing my irons short really badly.

After 6, my hips are hurting, and I'm starting to think to myself "what am I doing out here, I don't get to come out enough to get better at this game, and I don't have the time to take lessons, and I just don't enjoy the time when I'm not playing well, I'm just too competitive to enjoy being very mediocre at something".

So I play 7 and 8, ok, standing at 11 over, and the 9th is a par 3 165 VERY uphill, probably plays more like 180 or so.

I hit my driving iron off a tee, straight arrow towards the green, I think I may have gotten a bit too much, but there's a decent wind coming straight down.

From the teebox, you can see the flag, but not the surface of the green, and I saw it bounce once and then it was out of sight.

Got to the top of the hill, took my putter out, and neither I or my playing partner saw the ball anywhere, I thought I must have really overhit it, and there was an older fella standing off to the left of the green taking care of his bag after finishing up and he says

"You're not going to need your putter young fella, that thing bounced twice and ran right into the hole."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SAAAAAAAAWEEEEEEET!

And there she was, laying in the bottom of the cup.

I've been playing 20 years, and have never even come close to firing an ace.

I'm probably going to quit now, because it can only go downhill from here.