{"id":2128,"date":"2008-02-04T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2008\/02\/04\/92-year-old-hole-in-one\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T15:02:00","slug":"92-year-old-hole-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2008\/02\/04\/92-year-old-hole-in-one\/","title":{"rendered":"92 Year Old Hole in One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_-rOepCflcK8\/R6cpRTEDT2I\/AAAAAAAABJo\/YsgdQXevJB4\/s1600-h\/golfball_and_hole.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_-rOepCflcK8\/R6cpRTEDT2I\/AAAAAAAABJo\/YsgdQXevJB4\/s320\/golfball_and_hole.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163140874955345762\" \/><\/a>Oh, did we mention he was <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BLIND<\/span><\/span> too?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) &#8211; A hole-in-one is rare on the golf course, but what are the odds of a blind golfer sinking one?<\/p>\n<p>Leo Fiyalko couldn&#8217;t see it, but his golf buddies did: a hole-in-one on the fifth hole at the Cove Cay Country Club in Clearwater.<\/p>\n<p>Fiyalko is 92 and has macular degeneration. He&#8217;s been golfing for 60 years, but his 110-yard shot with a five iron on January tenth was his first hole-in-one.<\/p>\n<p>As he puts it: &#8220;I was just trying to put the ball on the green.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fiyalko tees off every Thursday with a group of golfers ranging in age from 70 to 90-plus.<\/p>\n<p>His friends at the country club presented him with a plaque last week to commemorate the feat.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/weird\/15107061.html\">(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Oh, did we mention he was BLIND too? CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) &#8211; A hole-in-one is rare on the golf course, but what are the odds of a blind golfer sinking one? Leo Fiyalko couldn&#8217;t see it, but his golf buddies did: a hole-in-one on the fifth hole at the Cove Cay Country Club in Clearwater.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2008\/02\/04\/92-year-old-hole-in-one\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing","category-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}