First Hole-In-One for Tommy at 87

It's taken 50 years, but 87-year-old Tommy Power has finally recorded a hole-in-one at Balbriggan Golf Club, Co Dublin.

Power, a 26-handicapper, who lives in Whitehall, in the north of Dublin, became the oldest recipient of a limited-edition BOSS watch, courtesy of the BOSS Watches H1 Club, after scoring a hole-in-one with his driver on the 120-yard, par-three 10th hole during a recent Stableford competition at the club he joined just over 50 years ago.

Yet it's not the highlight of his golfing career, as the former driver explained.

He said: "That was my first hole-in-one. I always wanted to have a hole-in-one and to win the captain's prize, but I never won the captain's prize - though I did win the president's prize. The highlight, however, was when I won the monthly medal in August with a nett 65, off the back tees. They reckoned I was the oldest man in the country to win a medal.

"It was once of those days when everything went right for me. I went bananas!" he laughed.

The sprightly octogenarian still plays twice a week and puts his longevity down to … Balbriggan Golf Club.

He added: "I went in to the hospital a couple of weeks ago for a check-up and they gave me 10 out of 10 for everything and asked me ‘what's the secret?'. My answer was Balbriggan Golf Club. I love it and I still play on Thursdays and Saturdays, out in the morning at 8.30am - the only thing now is that I use a buggy."

Power plays a lot of golf in Kent, where his daughter now lives, but he cites Gleneagles as the best course he has ever played, as his father-in-law had a house in Scotland, and he played plenty of times in the Home of Golf.

In addition to the limited-edition watch, Power is also awarded membership of the exclusive BOSS Watches H1 Club which offers its members access to exclusive benefits and merchandise.

Hole in One Facts

• Nearly 4,000 aces were recorded in the UK during 2012.
• The odds of a professional golfer making a hole-in-one on a par-three are around 2,500 to 1.
• Ann Bache defied the odds at 167,000,000 to 1 to make a double hole in one in 2012 at Edgbaston Golf Club
• Teenage Dan O’Connor made history in 2012 will he aced the historic 10th hole at Belfry Brabazon.
• In July 2012, two amateur golfers defied odds of 17 million to 1 by scoring holes-in-one on the same hole while playing in the same foursome, at the Portland Country Club, Maine.
• The oldest golfer known to have made a hole-in-one is 102-year-old Elsie McLean, who holed out with a driver on the 100-yard fourth hole at Bidwell Park, in Chico, California, in 2007.

For more information on Boss watches visit: www.bosswatches.co.uk

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