I figured I would share here for someone that did not have the internet in his days, but its an amazing hole-in-one story. On Oct. 26, 1953, 70 years ago today, my grandfather, John Gorman Sr., scored an ace on No. 17 at Thorny Lea Golf Club in Brockton, MA. The most difficult par-3 at 185-yards, knocking a three-iron into the cup. The following day, October 27th, he repeated the feat (allegedly with a different club). According to Golf Digest’s national hole-in-one clearinghouse, only six golfers, including Arnold Palmer, have ever aced the same hole on consecutive days. Today a plaque sits on the seventeenth tee to remind everyone what was accomplished on that fearsome par three. My Grandfather never had any other aces in his golf career. In WWII, my grandfather was a Seabee in the Navy. He helped build golf courses oversees. You know the Navy needed both kinds of bunkers. The rumor was he enlisted just to get rationed golf balls to keep his game going during the war. It paid off when he came back home. My Grandfather put four boys through college on a mailman’s salary, and a bunch of golf winnings from the local doctors and lawyers in Brockton who thought they could beat him. And to no surprise, all his boys were golfers! To bring it back to Titleist, in 1947, my grandfather and William E. “Bill” Tarlow won the Brockton City Four-Ball together. The same Bill Tarlow that co-founded FootJoy. I think the Four-Ball win was a bigger achievement than founding FootJoy, but that’s up for debate. Brockton really was a golf hotspot in those days. I remember hanging out at Thorny Lea as a kid and getting golf lessons from him. His favorite activity was to bring the grandkids out hunting for golf balls. He knew where everyone missed on the course, so it was always fruitful for me. I wish he was still around as my game could use some of his advice. He would be very happy to know that his great grandson has learned to play the game and is a decent stick at 12-years-old. And that’s my grandfather’s hole-in-one story!