{"id":38623,"date":"2025-09-23T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/38623\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:14:09","slug":"nine-year-old-kerry-golfer-scores-hole-in-one-despite-a-million-to-one-odds-and-meets-bill-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/38623\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine-year-old Kerry golfer scores hole-in-one despite \u2018a million to one odds\u2019 \u2013 and meets Bill Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nine-year-old Marianne Langford pictured after scoring a hole-in-one at Tralee Golf Club during a junior competition at the weekend.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KN Golf 1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Nine-year-old Marianne Langford pictured after scoring a hole-in-one at Tralee Golf Club during a junior competition at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A promising young north Kerry golfer had a weekend that she will never, ever forget after she not only scored her first hole-in-one but also bumped into actors Bill Murray and Chris O&#8217;Dowd on the beach while she was out walking the dog with her dad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As if this wasn\u2019t enough, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day star Murray even praised her \u201cnatural golf swing\u201d and said that she should definitely aim for getting a scholarship to one of the prestigious U.S colleges when she\u2019s older, such is her burgeoning talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine-year-old Marianne Langford pictured after scoring a hole-in-one at Tralee Golf Club during a junior competition at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14639,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-38623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fergus-dennehy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}