Golf Central

So what's your problem then? The holy grail of most amateur and club golfers - the hole-in-one - remains out of reach of almost everyone who has swung a club in anger. The odds against for tour professionals of an ace are estimated at 3000-1; for a low-handicapper that goes down to 5000-1; and for a high-handicapper the odds are 12000-1.

But what if your handicaps are literally your handicaps? We're not mathematicians here at IGWT, we're journalists, dammit, but someone brainy please let us know the odds against Leo Fiyalko's feat in January in Florida. Fiyalko had a couple of things against him when he scored his first lifetime ace at the Cove Cay Country Club in Clearwater, Florida: 1) he's 92 years old; and 2) he's legally blind.

Nice shot, Leo! For the record, Leo (who has been golfing for 60 years and once played off 7) blasted a perfect 5-iron on the 110-yard 5th hole at Cove Cay, which ended up in the hole. Leo, having been diagnosed with macular degeneration and is legally blind because he only has peripheral vision in his right eye, can't watch TV without turning to one side.

But what a shot he missed. Apparently, so too did the members of Leo's Twilighters Club golfing group at Cove Cay, none of whom actually saw Leo's shot go in. But the evidence was in the hole: Leo's golf ball. Leo's an honest man: "I never saw it," he said. We love the truth at IGWT, it's right in the name on the tin. If you maths wizards want to let us know what the odds are for Leo's feat, please let us know in the box below ... Hit 'em straight, and here's what our friends at the St Petersburg Times in Florida have to say about the story ...