{"id":561211,"date":"2026-05-01T20:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561211\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:44:21","slug":"7-year-old-golfer-scores-record-hole-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561211\/","title":{"rendered":"7-year-old golfer scores record hole-in-one!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freddie&#8217;s amazing hole-in-one was captured on camera by golfing tech company Official Hole in 1, who were  trying out new video technology by chance on the course that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The total distance to the hole is 64 metres (70 yards), with Freddie hitting it into the 10.8 cm (4.25 inch) hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The golfing club verified Freddie&#8217;s scorecard &#8211; which is used to keep track of how many hits it takes to complete each course &#8211; making it an officially recognised hole-in-one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, this also means that Freddie might also be the youngest ever Briton to record a verified hole-in-one!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freddie has been playing golf since he was three-years-old, and said getting a hole-in-one was &#8220;not easy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Well done Freddie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freddie&#8217;s amazing hole-in-one was captured on camera by golfing tech company Official Hole in 1, who were trying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-561211","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\/561211","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=561211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}