The challenge concerns route number 10. “Impossible?” Not that much. It never happened on this hole but it has already happened, ”smiles Sylvain Boutin, marketing manager for bodywork at Drouiteau. In the spring of 2023, on another Charentais route, the Golf de la Prèze, in Rouzède, a golfer had succeeded in such a feat.
According to the specialized website lapetiteballeblanche.com, 1 to 2 % of golfers barely achieve a “hole in one” each year.
For amateur golfers, the probability of making a hole in one is estimated at around 1 in 12,500, while for professionals, it is around 1 in 3,000, explains the Planète Golf site.
This performance is influenced by various factors, such as age, experience, disability, distance from the hole, the choice of the club and even the brand of the ball used, ensure specialists.
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“Sunday’s competition is open to all golfers. No need to register, you have to go there and be ready for 14 hours, ”explains Sylvain Boutin. There is room for around 80 people.
In addition to the car, many prizes will be won, and a draw will allow a participant to win a weekend in Mazda MX-5 Cabriolet, worth 399 euros.
This Sunday tournament adopts a friendly and dynamic formula: the scramble in two, with a shotgun departure at 2 p.m. Translation for non-specialists: in this formula, each team is made up of two players. On each hole, the two partners strike their starting stroke. Then they choose the best of the two balls to play the next blow, and so on until the ball is in the hole. The “start in shotgun” means that all the teams start the game simultaneously, but from different holes from the route.
A sound signal, a horn in this case, gives the start.
