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does the golfer knows he made a hole-in-one immediately after?

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You know how ESPN zooms at the dude's face after he made a hole-in-one, he will be all smiling and satisfied.

But how does he know coz the hole is like 100 yards away? Is there like a camera on the other side connected to a monitor near him, or someone over at the hole calls him, or ESPN just "cut-and-paste"-ed the footage so made it seems like the golfer knew he made it?
 
depending on elevation, usually you see a white dot rolling then disappear.

most of the time I would say you can see it.
 
Well in the pros, someone probably told him right away...

In real life it depends on the angle... If the tee-box is at a higher altitude than the green, you can probably tell if youve made it.... At the other angle sometimes you lose sight of it in the grass...
 
it is such a rare thing and what not your not likely to believe it, in real life you usually dont know untill you get closer..I bet on tv though someone tells them or they can figure it out from crowd excitement.

Closes I have come is 114 yards second shot on a par 4. Did not realize it till some guy who was working by the green yelled at me saying what happened.
 
If you can see the surface of the green you'll know immeditely, even from long range. A long par 3 might be 230 yards or so and from there you can see the ball pretty clearly. Sometimes the surface of the green isn't visible because it's uphill or hidden behind a bunker lip, in that case a pro can still tell because the crowd reaction for an ace is a lot different from a shot that just gets close. In the real world, we don't have crown reaction to go by. I've made one and got to see it fall into the hole, but I've played with 2 other people that made one when I was in their group and we saw neither because that area of the green was hidden from view. On one we spent several minutes looking for the ball in the rough behind the green because we were all sure that it had gone too far. We only looked in the hole as a last resort before took the lost ball penalty.
 
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
On one we spent several minutes looking for the ball in the rough behind the green because we were all sure that it had gone too far. We only looked in the hole as a last resort before took the lost ball penalty.
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that must have been cool.
 
i've never lost sight of my ball.. i mean you see where it lands.. then you walk over.. it's not like people lose their balls all the time.. well not the pros anyway.. you hit it.. it goes straight.. you see where it stops.. if it disappears around the pin, then it went in the hole
 
Originally posted by: habib89
i've never lost sight of my ball..
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Never? You've never played a hole where the fairway is elevated from the tee? Or hooked a shot around a dogleg? Hit a ball over an elevated green?
 
Originally posted by: Wingznut
Originally posted by: habib89
i've never lost sight of my ball..
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Never? You've never played a hole where the fairway is elevated from the tee? Or hooked a shot around a dogleg? Hit a ball over an elevated green?
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He must be playing miniature golf. You can get down on your hands and knees and follow it all the way as it disappears into the windmill. Those of us that play real golf on real courses hit lots of shots that are blind and sometimes have a hard time finding a ball even if it's been perfectly struck. We don't have TV cameras and huge galleries. Hell, Tiger lost his opening tee shot in the British Open this year while forecaddies, marshalls and thousands of spectators looked on. They were within 5 feet of it and still never found it. If it can happen there it can happen to any of us when faced with a blind, uphill shot into the sun.
 
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