CHILD SINKS HOLE IN ONE
Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Shem Banbury
A five-year-old will be the envy of all golfers after sinking a hole in one during a juniors tournament.
England's Eleanor Gamble pulled off the ace on a 78-metre par three, avoiding a lake and several bunkers and sinking the shot on just one bounce.
Eurosport reports that Eleanor was playing with her 10-year-old brother at the time as part of a juniors tournament at the Cambridge Lakes Golf Course. She said: "I was very excited. I am going to keep playing golf, and see if I will be better than my brother.
Her father is now seeking entry into the Guinness Book of Records for the youngest person to sink a hole in one.
"She keeps saying: 'I can't believe I got a hole-in-one'," he said. "We had her great grandparents over from Ireland and we took them to the course to show off our son Jacob, who is 10.
"He is really quite good but Eleanor has stolen his limelight. There were about 15 people on the tee watching.
"She got the ball over the water and then it hopped over a bunker and someone shouted that she had got it in. We were all quite speechless really.
"I think she might have broken a record because the youngest female hole-in-one golfer listed on the Guinness World Records website is by an eight-year-old from America.
"Eleanor has smashed the record by three years. We submitted an application and now we're waiting to hear back from them."
The owner of the nine-hole course did admit that the course records a lot of aces because all of the holes are par threes within short distance of the tee.
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