\tAnd here\u2019s the best part – she didn\u2019t even start playing until she was 58.<\/p>\n
\tLyn only took up the game after years of listening to her late husband talk golf.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cI used to get fed up of listening to golf talk all the time,\u201d she says. \u201cSo I thought, I\u2019ve got to get into this and see what it\u2019s like.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tTwo aces several years ago, both at her home club Downes Crediton – on the 13th and summer 11th holes,\u00a0were already something to cherish. But 2025 has taken things to a different level.<\/p>\n
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\tAce No. 3: The AGM Surprise<\/p>\n
\tThe first ace of this extraordinary run came on the 3rd hole at Downes Crediton, on the day of the club AGM.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cIt was a sunny afternoon and the greens had just been sanded, so I didn\u2019t see it go in,\u201d Lyn recalls. \u201cI knew it was close and when I couldn\u2019t see it, I was thinking \u2018don\u2019t tell me it\u2019s gone off the back!\u2019 But no, it was in the hole!\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe timing couldn\u2019t have been better. With the AGM taking place, a clubhouse full of members suddenly found themselves with cause to celebrate.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cBecause it was the AGM, I was very popular as it meant everyone coming in was getting a free drink!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\tAce No. 4: Ladies Day Magic<\/p>\n
\tSixteen days later it happened again.<\/p>\n
\tThis time it was Ladies Day at the club, and Lyn was back on a previous favourite: the 13th hole.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThis time, we did see the ball go in,\u201d she says. \u201cWe all looked at each other saying, \u2018Has that really just gone in the hole?!\u2019 There was a little bit of jumping up and down and a photograph after that one, and so it was drinks all round again!\u201d<\/p>\n
\tTwo holes-in-one in little over two weeks. Many golfers go a lifetime without one. For Lyn, the golfing gods clearly weren\u2019t finished.<\/p>\n
\tAce No. 5: A Tricky Twelve at Tiverton<\/p>\n
\t14 days later, away from home at Tiverton Golf Club, Lyn completed her remarkable hat-trick and took her tally to five aces.<\/p>\n
\tPlaying a social round with three friends, she stepped onto the 12th tee with no expectation that lightning would strike for a third time in 31 days.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cI hit one and thought \u2018that felt nice!\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cI saw it land just at the bottom of the little bank on the right, and thought it might be close. But I told myself it doesn\u2019t happen in threes, that\u2019s just silly. Then there it was, in the hole!\u201d<\/p>\n
\tIf anything about this run can be described as \u201cnaughty\u201d, it\u2019s what happened next.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cSadly after the round it was dark and nobody wanted to stay around and the girls asked if we could save the celebrations for another day, so we didn\u2019t go in – which is a bit naughty isn\u2019t it?!\u201d<\/p>\n
\tJust How Rare Is This?<\/p>\n
\tMaking one hole-in-one is rare enough. Back in 2017, analysis of 167,000 rounds on Golfshake<\/a> produced the following averages for how often golfers make an ace:<\/p>\n \t\t\tHandicap +4 to 2: roughly once every 406 rounds\t\t\tHandicap under 10: once every 561 rounds\t\t\tHandicap 10\u201314: once every 930 rounds\t\t\tHandicap 14\u201320: once every 1,287 rounds\t\t\tHandicap 20+: once every 1,890 rounds<\/p>\n \tEven at the very top of the game, aces are special and infrequent. The National Hole-in-One Association suggests typical odds of about 12,500\/1 for an average golfer on any par three.<\/p>\n \tSo when people start making multiple aces in quick succession, they enter golfing folklore.<\/p>\n \tTake Steve Cheshire, who waited 45 years for his first hole-in-one<\/a> at Ashley Wood Golf Club in Dorset and then made another just ten days later! Or the two Scottish golfers at Lanark who halved a par three with back-to-back holes-in-one<\/a>.<\/p>\n \tThen there\u2019s Ann Bache at Edgbaston, who in 2014 made two aces in a single round<\/a> during a PING fourball event, and Dan O\u2019Connor, who in 2012 became the first ever golfer to ace the iconic 10th on The Belfry\u2019s Brabazon course<\/a>, hitting his drive 301 yards into the hole.<\/p>\n \tThese are the sort of stories that get whispered around clubhouses for years. Lyn\u2019s month in Devon now belongs in that same category of \u201cdid-that-really-happen?\u201d golf tales.<\/p>\n \tFor all the talk of odds and records, Lyn is clear: the aces are a wonderful bonus, but they\u2019re not the point.\u00a0<\/p>\n \tHer Handicap Index was 19.4 in May. Over a golden summer, it dropped by nearly seven shots.<\/p>\n \t\u201cThe gratifying thing is that my handicap has come down by nearly seven shots – and I\u2019m old!\u201d she says. \u201cIt shows that you can never be too old. It\u2019ll probably go up again because it\u2019s hard, but it\u2019s been a great year.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\u201cLet\u2019s face it, I\u2019m probably not going to get any better,\u201d she says, with typical honesty. \u201cThe holes-in-one have just come along a bit like buses, but it\u2019s just for me about having fun. We have a good club, a good atmosphere, everyone\u2019s very friendly and I just want to enjoy my golf at Crediton for as long as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n \tShe loves the way golf brings generations together.<\/p>\n \t\u201cYou\u2019re never too old. The beauty of golf is that it\u2019s for all ages – I played with a 15-year-old boy on Saturday in a competition, he played really well and had a great temperament – it\u2019s great the people you get to meet and play alongside.\u201d<\/p>\n \tHer only regret?<\/p>\n \t\u201cMy only regret is that I didn\u2019t play when I was younger, as I might have been even better!\u201d<\/p>\n \tA Message to Women and Girls: \u201cGive It a Go\u201d<\/p>\n \tBefore heading off on a girls\u2019 golf trip to play one of the best golf course in Cornwall<\/a>, Trevose<\/a>, Lyn is keen to stress how much the game has given her – socially as much as competitively.<\/p>\n \t\u201cIt\u2019s a great social game and you learn a lot of self-discipline really, as it\u2019s you against the course, and the course usually wins!\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve made plenty of friendships through golf and I think my message to women and girls is that it\u2019s not just for the lads. Girls can achieve just as much, so give it a go!\u201d<\/p>\n \tHer story is proof of that. A woman who took up the game in her late fifties, now in her mid-seventies, with five career aces and a handicap tumbling in her seventies.<\/p>\n \tMost of us are still waiting for that one perfect shot we\u2019ll remember forever. Lyn Parry has had more than her fair share – and she\u2019s not finished enjoying them yet.<\/p>\n \t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are moments in golf that defy logic, maths and common sense. 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