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Hole-y Sheet!

  • by Lara Kirkner
  • in Arts and Life · Sports and Outdoors
  • — 29 Jul, 2011

Within 16 short days, Sierra Star Golf Course bartender Rusty Richardson accomplished what golfers around the world strive for … only he did it twice.  Richardson, who has been working at the Star since its fourth or fifth year, made a hole in one at the 14th hole. Sixteen days later, he accomplished the same feat at the same hole, with a different pin location and a different club.

“I ran around the bunker and the green about three times and soaked it in,” Richardson said.

Richardson, a leftie who taught himself to golf by watching the pros on T.V., moved to Mammoth in 1998. Richardson’s advice for golfers striving for their own hole in one: “Always aim directly at the flag, and reek like confidence.”

Previously, Richardson had also landed a hole in one at the 18th hole. According to Richardson’s co-worker, Ian Birrell, “The estimated odds of acing a hole with any given swing are one in 33,000.”

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— Lara Kirkner

Lara Kirkner is the editor of The Sheet.

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2 Comments

  1. KLo says:
    July 29, 2011 at 3:48 pm

    This is amazing!!!!!! Rusty is incredibly athletic and I love reading stories like this! This makes me want to go practice.

  2. Ambo says:
    July 29, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    KLo I agree 🙂 he rocks…..

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