ABC Radio Interview – Don Rule, John Tiplady – June 2007
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| If you ever hit a hole-in-one on a round of golf, I think it’s safe to say the event would be suitably celebrated… but did you know you could join a club specifically set up for those golfers lucky enough to sink it?
It’s called The Hole-In-One Club of Queensland… and history was made on the 17th of June at the Caboolture Golf Club, when Don Rule, long time member of the club hit his second hole-in-one on the 18th hole! Don is the first member in the club’s sixty-seven year history to have done it twice; and as tradition allows, Don was granted life membership and presented a bottle of plonk for his efforts. So was Don surprised by his luck on the green? “It’s always given me a bit of trouble this hole, so I was just trying to just get it close to the top… but it was a God send that it went in the hole! It meant I didn’t have to putt.” Don says he hasn’t any useful tips. “I just go out and hopefully play a reasonable sort of round; but I’ve been a bit in the doldrums over the last couple of weeks and this was very unexpected to be quite honest… I still don’t know how it went in!” John Tiplady, Vice President of the Club says the Club is becoming quite exclusive. “At the moment there’s probably about four-hundred to five-hundred members and about half of those are female. We did get up to two-thousand members at one stage,” he said. But for anyone out there thinking about claiming that elusive hole-in-one from the early 1980’s be warned. “It’s the most extraordinarily difficult club to get into… If you score a hole-in-one on a normal social round, bad luck, it has to be on a proper Australian Golf Union (AGU) rated course in a properly run competition.” But once you’re in; I’m told you’re duly welcomed. “They’re all good golfers in our club… We’ve become more family than anything.” Source: ABC Brisbane – 27 June, 2007 |
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| Audio Runtime: 1 hour, 11 mins, 53 secs Hit the Play button below to start audio playback. |
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