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People have also suffered sudden heart attacks at times of extreme joy or excitement—such as hitting a hole-in-one in golf or being acquitted of a crime.
Scary Movies and Real-Life Risks Melinda Beck 2011
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Max did really well, and got his first hole-in-one ever.
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Quiros shot a 68, surviving a wild round that included a hole-in-one and a triple bogey to finish at 11-under 277, one stroke ahead of Anders Hansen of Denmark (70) and James Kingston of South Africa (67).
Tiger Falls Short AP 2011
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It is wonderfully appropriate that the Masters, for instance, should reward its champion with a parsley--coloured blazer that only a golfer could care for, and that the rest of us would have taken down to the Sally Army quicker than you can say hole-in-one.
England's cricketers will get a mace to go with their kingly crown | Emma John 2011
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Quiros shot a 68, surviving a wild round that included a hole-in-one and a triple bogey to finish at 11-under 277, one stroke ahead of Anders Hansen of Denmark (70) and James Kingston of South Africa (67).
Tiger Falls Short AP 2011
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Matthews, like Maggot, has no handicap certificate: "It takes four hours and the electronics business is something I spend most of my time at, though I actually had a hole-in-one at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club about 10 years ago," he says.
Meet Celtic Manor's Sir Terry Matthews ... and a man called Maggot Jamie Jackson 2010
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Getty Images Tom Watson After a round which included a hole-in-one on the sixth hole yesterday, Tom Watson told the story of his first ace ever.
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Mrs. Pease was a member of Burke Lake women's golf league and, at 72, scored a hole-in-one, her family said.
M. Jean Pease, USAID Employee Post 2010
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Watson was especially excited because he had been using a Dunlop No. 4 ball, and he was well aware of ads in the golf magazines promising that anyone who made an ace with a Dunlop ball could send the ball to the company and receive in return a hole-in-one plaque with the ball mounted on it.
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• I once had a hole-in-one … on a par four … with a 5-wood.
Save as draft Cavanaugh Lee 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word hole-in-one
Polling the community: should the plural be hole-in-ones or holes-in-one?
December 30, 2010
benw commented on the word hole-in-one
@milosrdenstvi: I should think holes-in-one is preferable to hole-in-ones, as attorneys-general is considered more correct than attorney-generals.
December 30, 2010
yarb commented on the word hole-in-one
I've heard both. I suppose holes-in-one is more correct, but actually I think hole-in-ones sounds more natural.
holes-in-one makes it sound like several holes in one shot - or worse, something orifice-related.
December 30, 2010
bilby commented on the word hole-in-one
Of course one is sometimes a little shocked by the decidedly uncouth through-passage of the first bullet, yet as an otherly consciousness approaches the sensation is somewhat bearable after several holes-in-one.
December 30, 2010