Queenstown’s one-armed golfer, famed for his hole-in-one feats, has died aged 76.<\/p>\n
South African Erasmus “Ras” Theron\u00a0had his right arm amputated when he was 19 after it was badly burnt while he was training to be a fighter pilot.<\/p>\n
Told he would never play sport again, he adapted his swing and began plying using only his left arm.<\/p>\n
Mr Theron achieved his first ace on Arrowtown\u2019s 12th hole when he was 65, more than 50 years after first taking up the sport.<\/p>\n
His second one came in March last year at Frankton Golf Centre\u2019s driving range \u2014 a super-sized hole on an old trailer.<\/p>\n
“Holes-in-one are unbelievable. You know some golfers play their whole life and don\u2019t get one,” he said at the time.<\/p>\n
Mr Theron gained his private pilot\u2019s licence in 1990 and has flown three modified types of aircraft with one arm.<\/p>\n
South African media reported that Theron\u2019s body will be repatriated to South Africa for burial, with funeral details to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queenstown’s one-armed golfer, famed for his hole-in-one feats, has died aged 76. South African Erasmus “Ras” Theron\u00a0had his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-446742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}