{"id":409455,"date":"2026-02-05T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409455\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:56:07","slug":"woking-teen-wins-new-zealand-hole-in-one-challenge-on-gap-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409455\/","title":{"rendered":"Woking teen wins New Zealand hole-in-one challenge on gap year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walton, who says he plays occasionally with friends at Chobham Golf Club when at home, says he went to the golf challenge to pass the time on a rainy day in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The challenge involves golfers hitting the ball from the lake shore 104m (341 ft) on to a pontoon in the lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walton said staff were more excited than he was after he made the shot, as he &#8220;had no idea what was going on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hole in One Lake Taupo later presented him with a giant novelty cheque, and Walton&#8217;s first call after was to his father, who he woke up at 01:30 GMT to tell him the good news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walton now says he and his friends will be heading to Australia, Thailand and Vietnam, and he will then be looking to go to university when he returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walton, who says he plays occasionally with friends at Chobham Golf Club when at home, says he went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-409455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409455","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=409455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}