{"id":157023,"date":"2025-09-24T06:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157023\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T06:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:44:15","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\/uk\/157023\/","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\/uk\/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":157024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28800,5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-157023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-fergus-dennehy","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}