{"id":761292,"date":"2026-06-26T09:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761292\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:48:18","slug":"87-year-old-makes-hole-in-one-takes-legendary-photo-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761292\/","title":{"rendered":"87-year-old makes hole-in-one, takes legendary photo \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to an 87-year-old man named Lee McFarland for making a hole-in-one, but also for taking one of the best hole-in-one photos ever.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/watch-adam-scott-breaks-hole-in-one-drought-with-houston-heroics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Scott breaks hole-in-one drought<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McFarland made his ace at Chippewa Golf Club just outside Toledo in Ohio earlier this week by knocking in a driver from 135 yards (123 metres). And did he celebrate his impressive accomplishment? You\u2019re damn right he did. Have a look:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2021\/260625-fb-ace.png.rend.hgtvcom.966.966.suffix\/1782399166723.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2021\/260625-fb-ace.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A beer and a cigarette in hand by the time you pluck your golf ball out of the hole is amazing stuff. This guy was ready to rock.<\/p>\n<p>And apparently, he kept up the good play as well. As you can see, Lee also shot his age.<\/p>\n<p>Just an absolute legend. We hope the party is still going, Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congrats to an 87-year-old man named Lee McFarland for making a hole-in-one, but also for taking one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,363494,755,138747,34403,363495,44,85],"class_list":["post-761292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chippewa-golf-club","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-hole-in-one","tag-lee-mcfarland","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761292","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=761292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}