When you are 97 years old, it can take a tad longer to play 18 holes of golf than it did when you were a whippersnapper of 80.
Playing the par-3 Meadow brook Golf Course by himself on April 27, Dean Gorman figured he was showing proper golf etiquette when he let two guys “play through” on the 14th hole.
As it turns out, what he’d done was give himself witnesses to vouch for a rather dramatic golf occurrence.
The two strangers were leaving the 14th green for the 15th tee when Gorman took a 5-iron from his golf bag and let ‘er rip.
“I could tell it was going to be a good shot when I hit it,” Gorman said Thursday.
When you are 97 years old, it’s hard to know for sure how well your shots turn out.
Says Gorman: “I can’t see the ball anymore when it gets to the green.”
He still hears plenty well, though, at least well enough to discern the shouts coming from the two men he’d let play ahead.
“The ball’s in the hole! The ball’s in the hole!”
One of the strangers, Eddie Overton, turned in the hole-in-one to the golf course staff.
When you are 97 years old, a hole-in-one must be a pretty good thrill.
“At my age, getting out of bed each day is a pretty good thrill,” Gorman says.
Spend a little time with Dean Gorman, and you’ll decide that his recent hole-in-one is not the most amazing thing about him.
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