Teenage golfer Paul Kinnear celebrates four holes in one
THE end of season is stocking time on the golf season, a time for a reckoning of the triumphs and missed opportunities and perhaps golf oddities, like a hole-in-one – and a remarkable happening for Paul Kinnear.
Most of us play a lifetime without even one ace. So when it happens it is certainly a special moment.
Two is less common. But then imagine Paul’s experience. He has had four, including three in three weeks this season.
The result of many years playing the game? On the contrary. He is only 15 and he has been playing for less than four years,
“Yes, I was a bit surprised,” he says, talking of his third ace. “People are a bit shaken really.”
The trio of aces came in his best year. He was the aggregate nett winner in the spring meeting at Formby, where he is a member, and he won the 2009 Lancashire Boys championship at Wilpshire.
Paul is from Melling and a pupil at Maghull High School.
And, as he recalls, his first ace came some time ago at Hurlston Hall. But this August, a little like the tale of the buses, three came so close together they might make a record of some kind.
His first came in the Royal Birkdale Junior Open, a four-iron shot to the flag 207 yards away. Then in the English Boys at Whittington Heath, Lichfield, he holed his seven-iron tee shot.
“It was a bit of luck really,” he says.
Before the end of the month, playing in the North of England Under-16s Strokeplay at Heswall, he hit a nine-iron shot at a 170-yard hole and again saw the ball bounce, spin sideways and roll into the hole.
“People around me have known what was going on,” he says. ”People do say that it is amazing. Yes, it’s good.”
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