{"id":509557,"date":"2026-03-07T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/509557\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:43:09","slug":"villager-buys-drinks-after-getting-hole-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/509557\/","title":{"rendered":"Villager buys drinks after getting hole-in-one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Mark Kelly\u00a0got his first hole-in-one at Hole #17 at the\u00a0 Tierra del Sol Championship Golf Course.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He described it as a \u201cdaunting par 3 guarded by wetlands on three sides and a merciless bulkhead wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.villages-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mark-Kelly-was-thrilled-to-get-the-lucky-ace.jpeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"306027\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.villages-news.com\/2026\/03\/06\/villager-buys-drinks-after-getting-hole-in-one\/mark-kelly-was-thrilled-to-get-the-lucky-ace\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.villages-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mark-Kelly-was-thrilled-to-get-the-lucky-ace.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1494,1704\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mark Kelly was thrilled to get the lucky ace\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Mark Kelly was thrilled to get the lucky ace&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Mark Kelly was thrilled to get the lucky ace.&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.villages-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mark-Kelly-was-thrilled-to-get-the-lucky-ace-263x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mark-Kelly-was-thrilled-to-get-the-lucky-ace-526x600.jpeg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-306027\" title=\"Mark Kelly was thrilled to get the lucky ace\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mark-Kelly-was-thrilled-to-get-the-lucky-ace-526x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Mark Kelly was thrilled to get the lucky ace\" width=\"526\" height=\"600\"  \/><\/a>Mark Kelly was thrilled to get the lucky ace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He\u00a0stepped up to the tee box and with the cadence and form of a tour pro effortlessly executed an incredible shot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Needless to say he celebrated with his golf group \u201cThe Villages Critters\u201d at Redsauce, sharing libations and his story with his friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">If you get a hole-in-one, share the news at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villages-news.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#7f111a080c3f091613131e181a0c52111a080c511c1012\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Kelly\u00a0got his first hole-in-one at Hole #17 at the\u00a0 Tierra del Sol Championship Golf Course.\u00a0 He described&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-509557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}