Golf: Heaven in the Cup

Every golfer knows that when he gets to heaven he will boom his way around St. Peter's Royal and Ancient Golf Club in 18 magnificently perfect strokes. While he's waiting, though, he'll happily settle for a little bit of heaven on earth: a hole in one.

He'll probably get it too. Something like 300,000 U.S. golfers already have holes in one to their credit, and no fewer than 11,774 new aces were recorded in 1964 alone. The odds against just any amateur's getting one are computed at 6,000 to 1. But the lightning...

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