{"id":66724,"date":"2025-08-14T04:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66724\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T04:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:09:11","slug":"aussie-club-golfer-noelenes-rollercoaster-round-of-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66724\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie club golfer Noelene\u2019s rollercoaster round of a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[PHOTO: Golf Australia via Westpix\/Craig Duncan]<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Golf Club member Noelene Wooltorton overcome unfathomable odds when she carded an eagle on a par 4 eagle and a hole-in-one in the same round!<\/p>\n<p>MORE FROM AUSTRALIAN GOLF DIGEST: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/rory-mcilory-first-pga-tour-paycheck-purchase-watch-bmw-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018The worst purchase ever\u2019: Rory McIlroy has regrets about what he bought with his first tour pay cheque<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Competing in the Monthly Mug strokeplay competition at Harvey Golf Club, it didn\u2019t take Noelene long to find her groove.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an opening double-bogey after starting her round on the 10th, Noelene required only two strokes to complete the par-4 12th after a \u201ccracking drive\u201d left her a short shot in to the green.<\/p>\n<p>A decent approach shot was obscured by the shade dappling the green and when her ball wasn\u2019t immediately visible, Noelene and partners assumed it had gone long \u2013 only to get very pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe walked all the way up there and were looking around and thought it must\u2019ve gone over the back of the green,\u201d Noelene said. \u201cThen I looked in the hole and was like, \u2018Oh my God!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The eagle helped 16-handicapper Noelene reach the turn on 44 strokes (eight-over the card) and her memorable round was about to get even better.<\/p>\n<p>Starting her back nine on the club\u2019s par-three first hole, Noelene achieved every golfer\u2019s dream as she produced a hole-in-one, much to the delight and disbelief of her playing partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an amazing shot, it just went straight in the hole and we actually all saw it going in,\u201d Noelene recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were all high-fiving, jumping around and squealing like you wouldn\u2019t believe. It was so funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/rules-of-golf-review-course-boundaries-ob-penalty-area-on-off-line\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rules Review: Is your ball on or off? In or out? Understanding course boundaries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her amazing double helped Noelene clean up in the competition. As well as landing the Monthly Mug with a nett 71, her fourball won the team comp and, naturally, she also claimed nearest-the-pin honours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have two in the one day and then to actually win the day, it was just amazing,\u201d said Noelene. You can\u2019t put it into words. It was just one of those days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[PHOTO: Golf Australia via Westpix\/Craig Duncan] Harvey Golf Club member Noelene Wooltorton overcome unfathomable odds when she carded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-66724","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\/66724","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=66724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}