\n “We walked down and there it was down the hole.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt was the first hole-in-one I have ever had so it was very good. I couldn\u2019t believe it. I was really excited.\n<\/p>\n
\n Jack Ponsford (right) with golf partner George Bruce (right) after his hole in one. Picture: SWNS\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI have got quite a lot of family who all play golf and none of them have ever had a hole-in-one either. So I am quite chuffed with that.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI was definitely the oldest to ever get a hole in one at that golf course, and the pair of us might be the oldest duo in the country to get one. It could be a record.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Jack has been playing golf his whole life and started at Pannal Golf Club when he moved to the area in 1985.\n<\/p>\n
\n Now, the grandad says he plays twice a week to keep active, and that he always walks instead of using a buggy to keep fit.\n<\/p>\n
\n Jack was formerly a sales worker at Unilever before partially retiring at 58, though he worked part-time until 68 years old.\n<\/p>\n
\n He lived with his wife Vera with whom he had three sons, seven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren, until she passed away in 2018.\n<\/p>\n
\n The pensioner says that all of his family love golf, and he is hoping to get many more hole-in-ones in the future.\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: \u201cMy wife and I used to play golf together before she died. I have never been a great golfer, but I enjoy it anyway.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cTo get a hole in one was a lifetime achievement. A lot of people never get one.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAll my friends and family were excited. It really was amazing.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Pannal Golf Club said on Facebook: “A huge congratulations to Jack Ponsford aged 93 for getting his first ever hole in 1 on the 3rd hole!\n<\/p>\n
\n “Even more remarkable was that it was witnessed by his playing partner and friend, George Bruce aged 97!\n<\/p>\n
\n “Could this be a world record for the oldest pairing involved in a hole in 1?!\n<\/p>\n
\n “Fantastic achievement and another reason we love golf!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Ponsford notched up an ace on the 135-yard third hole at Pannal Golf Club in Harrogate last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-359393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115061073102012103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}