Playing in the 43rd annual Australasian Fire Brigade Championships at the Queenstown Golf Club in New Zealand on November 14, the man popularly known as ‘Casey’ aced the 93 metre 10th hole.
Hitting over a pond, his wedge shot went into the target. For that special shot, the former five-term YMGCR’ men’s captain is to receive a special crystal decanter from the UK.
The special shot produced four points which significantly helped Casey record a total of 36 points in the stableford round.
On December 3, at home on the Murray’s 17th, 123 metre long hole, his 9 iron also went in the hole. It helped a lot in clinching an overall stroke round score of net 72.
The big hitting Casey’s three previous holes-in-one have all been at YMGCR, including a shortened 269 metre Par 4 Lake Course fourth hole when the men had to use the ladies tee that day a few years ago.“I saw this ball headed for the ski club car park,” fellow playing partner, John ‘Western Bulldog Pop’ told the Yarrawonga Chronicle about Casey’s tee shot.
“We couldn’t see it so a couple of us thought it might have reached the ski park. But someone decided to look in the hole and there it was!”
Casey doesn’t mind which ‘colour’ courses he snares a hole-in-one on. In addition to the Red Nine on the Lake Course, he had a hole-in-one on YMGCR’s Blue Nine in a social round “a few years ago”.
The 9.2 handicapper loved his seventh annual fire brigade get together, catching up with mates from around Australia and New Zealand.
A total of 220 golfers competed in New Zealand, including 40 Kiwis. Commenting about the ace at Queenstown,” the 68-year-old long serving NSW Fire and Rescue Mulwala Fire Brigade Unit said: “It was great because you could see it go in.”
