At the age of 46, my golf outings have been reduced to once a year, and even then I have to warn wildlife nesting in the woods nearby that I have no idea where the ball is going once it leaves my club.
Apparently, former minor leaguer Bucky Boehm doesn’t have that problem. The 90-year-old sank his second hole-in-one recently. His first one came in 1985. His latest came at Pine Valley Golf Links in Pelham, N.H. He used an 8-iron on the 125-yard hole, knocking it straight down the fairway. The hole is uphill though, so he didn’t know about the hole-in-one at first.
"I couldn’t see it and then I started walking up toward the hole and I got there and I saw the ball in the bottom, and I said, 'Hey, Billy, it’s in the hole,'" Boehm recalled in an AP story. "I said, 'You come and look before I take it out.'"
Boehm played six seasons (833 games) in the minor leagues from 1946-51, including one with the San Diego Padres who were in the Pacific Coast League at the time. Ironically, the modern day major league Padres wore PCL throwback jerseys recently.
#Padres uniform today for PCL night. pic.twitter.com/3149xj9qV5
— Jamal Collier (@JamalCollier) July 12, 2013
Boehm, whose real first name is Ed, never got a chance to play in the big leagues. He says hitting kept him from making it (he was a career .253 hitter with 47 home runs). He found another sport he loves though. He plays golf five times a week and has a 22-handicap.