THREE years after there was a chance he may never play another round of golf, Ian O’Shea last weekend celebrated a hole in one at Neangar Park.
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O’Shea, 78, fired the hole in one on the 150m 10th while playing in the B-grade Stableford competition.
Not one to make a fuss, O’Shea played down his feat. “I just teed it up off the 10th, hit the ball onto the green and it went into the hole… that was it,” he said this week.
O’Shea didn’t take up golf until he was 65, with last Saturday his second hole in one.
He also shot one at Avenel Golf Club about six years ago.
“I’ve been fairly close here a few times, so it was a real thrill to get it,” O’Shea said.
O’Shea – who plays off a handicap of 17 - is back enjoying his golf following a heart attack and quadruple bypass in September, 2012, in which he spent a week in Intensive Care at the Epworth Hospital.
“It took me ages to get back playing. I’m lucky I can get out there on the course again,” he said.