It was windy out there in Rochester, Michigan today. Blackheath Golf Club is a Links-Style Golf course 15 miles North of Detroit. I have played Blackheath many times in my now five year span as a golf-addict. Today however... Today was different..... Today, I got my first Hole-In-One!!!!!!!! I was playing with a foursome consisting of two brothers, their cousin, and myself. We had just come off the uphill, dog leg right, par-five eleventh where I snuck away with a two putt par using my Titleist Scotty Cameron Futura X5 Dual Balance. As we made our way to the twelfth tee box, the wind was steadily blowing in from the north-west; due south-east. The twelfth green is almost directly south of its tee box, so the wind was helping us a bit and coming across right-to-left. I used a range finder to get a yardage of 156 yards (slope not accounted for) With the wind helping a bit, I grabbed my Titleist Ap1 9 iron. I have been hitting my 9 iron 155 yards this season, but it was a little cold out today and my 9 iron was only flying 145.... but with the wind helping, and with 156 to the pin.... I figured it would be the correct club choice. I teed up my Titleist Tour Soft ball on the left side of the tee box and aimed 5 yards to the right of the green (about 15 yards to the right of the pin). I intended to hit a baby draw (my stock shot) and I figured I’d let the right-to-left wind bring it back into the pin the rest of the way. I swung, then looked up to see the flight-path of my shot. I had hit it just as intended! My 5 yard draw was shaping in the air and I was waiting for the wind to help bring the ball back the rest of the way... but it didn’t... because this is golf. My ball bounced off the fringe on the right side of the green. Except, this is golf!!!! It was the perfect bounce!!!! My draw shape had made the ball spin directly left after the first bounce off of the fringe!!! The ball bounced left and disappeared behind a grass-lipped bunker. By the time we could see the ball come out from behind that lip.... it was rolling directly at the hole at the pace of a perfectly-hit 5 foot putt!! The pace of the ball rolling happened slowly enough for everyone in my group to direct the ball... yell at the ball, coach the ball!! Go in... GO IN!!!!!!! And then the moment happened. The ball dropped ever so perfectly into the cup! The course is tightly wound so I’m sure our collective yelling carried around to every player on the course at the time... LETTTSSSS GOOOOOO!!!!!!! On the walk to the thirteenth tee box, I was in disbelief of what had just happened. When I stepped onto the 13th tee box, my arms felt like jello. The next four holes I went bogey, triple bogey, bogey, double bogey. And there it was.... the game of golf, right there once again, in the flesh. Golf. Although a triple-bogey 7 on the card doesn’t look half as bad when it’s next to a 1 with two circles around it! :) Thanks for the confidence Titleist!!!