You Don't Have To See It To Tee It.
What is going on in the world? There was a time when I, along with most members of GP Towers, thought we were above average at sport. We could do a job for you at 5-a-side footy, have a knock about for your pub cricket team and wouldn’t embarrass you on your Sunday four-ball. Now that the sands of time keep leaking from the hourglass of potential sporting achievement it’s becoming clearer that much of this prowess existed only in our heads. You can always look back with rose tinted wrap around shades at that time you really impressed in those county under 16 trials. But as you get older you will inevitably be reminded more often than not that you are not a sleeping giant of unique sporting talent, in fact you’re probably below average.
Take this story for example. Sheila Drummond has achieved golf’s holy grail by acing a 144 yard par-three at Mahoning Valley Country Club in Lehighton, Pennsylvania on Sunday.
Deserved congratulations, but this feat was made all the more impressive by the fact she is blind. Yup blind. Now that is sporting prowess.
” LOS ANGELES, Aug 20 (Reuters) - American Sheila Drummond, with her heart pounding, recorded what is believed to be the first hole-in-one by a totally blind female golfer at Mahoning Valley Country Club in Lehighton, Pennsylvania on Sunday.
Playing with her husband Keith and another couple in damp conditions on a course she knows very well, the 53-year-old amateur aced the par-three fourth from 144 yards with a driver.
Drummond, blind since 1982 because of diabetes, heard her ball strike the flagstick before it dropped into the cup for the best moment of her golfing career.
"I hit the ball and one of my opponents said: 'Oh, that's a great shot'," Drummond told Reuters in a telephone interview on Monday.
"Then she said: 'It's going over (the green), no wait, it's going in the cup!' We all heard the ball hit the pin and I asked: 'Are you sure it's in the hole?'
"Then we raced off in our carts over the bridge and the water toward the green before I knew I had my first hole-in-one…”
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8/21/2007 10:13:50 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) 
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