TROON, Scotland — South Korea’s Si Woo Kim made the longest hole-in-one in Open historical past when he aced the 238-yard par-3 seventeenth within the third spherical at Royal Troon on Saturday.
Kim, who shot an even-par 71, chosen a 3-iron from his bag and struck his ball to the entrance fringe the place it rolled throughout the placing floor and dropped within the gap.
“I’ve had about six holes-in-one earlier than, however that is essentially the most memorable,” he mentioned of his second of magic on the seventeenth, which had by no means witnessed a hole-in-one in earlier Opens at Troon.
The earlier longest hole-in-one on the Open was the 212-yard ace Frank Lickliter II made on the fifth gap at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 2001.
Kim was 5 over after three rounds.
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