the pattern is probably more spread out than you think. they show like 5 balls within 0.5 meters of the hole. you can guess that with 500 balls, and only 5 got that close, the spread is pretty big. probably a radius of about 5-10 meters for 90% of the balls with no increments towards the center.
One time I had a guy dropping balls on every hole to rehit.. UGH, finally I cranked one to the par 4 green at 360 yds and he picked up the pace like the SOB he was.
He had a nice little 2' x 2' patch of ground that he divoted out by the end there. I would think the groundskeeper would just drop a square of sod on there there and call it a day!
why would you feel bad for someone whos job it is to do exactly that. not to mention they definitely hired or brought someone exactly for that purpose here. bending over and working the grass a little bit, sooooooo hard hahaha.
Once, on a par 3, one of the golfers behind us, shot and landed on the green when we were still doing our last putt. You can't really see the green from the tee because of a hill. The guy's shot was about 25 feet from the cup and I went over and grabbed his ball and dropped it in the cup. I can only imagine the guy's reaction to finding the ball in the cup, thinking for these last 20 years, he actually got a hole in one.
Almost all hole in ones I have seen roll in. If you hit a high ball flight with check just don't get much chance to hole as ball doesn't cover much green.
Will iam Excellent point. I was thinking that while watching. Either a green with more slope near the hole, or a shorter shot with a wedge that spins higher would improve the odds here.
Good point. Perhaps he should have taken PW and tried to rip it back in. Or 3/4 a 7 iron. Given what he was attempting, shot 153 that jammed the flagstick was the one, it just didn't stick.
Robby Proto I know, right lol. I go to the driving range and I hurt after I hit around 100. I know he’s a pro golfer, but still. Couldn’t feel great the next morning lol
He should have been clubbed up to a 7 iron and choked up a bit. Something with a lower trajectory aimed at the front of the green has a much better chance of rolling in. The wind is less of a factor, balls aren't checking up and rolling in a random direction, less fatigue on your body and there's no concentration of divots near the hole.
This guy was amazing so close so many times. I know he didnt make one but what talent and skill to be as accurate as he was so many times over such a long day
To make this a valid argument he would have to hit all 2500 at the same time. Otherwise EACH shot is 1 in 2500 chance. The number of balls hit doesn't decrease that number unless they are hit at once.
+BigRedRIP Well yes and no. The statistic would revert if the hole he played each time was different because the statistic depends on the placement of the ball and pin. ie: If a player took a shot from the same spot with the same pin placement on the same hole he would get 1 hole in one from every 2500 shots. In this case, however, he moves the ball slightly which technically changes the odds and makes it harder but because the divergence of each shot is so small in this case maybe 3 or 4cm on every shot we can assume the shot to be more or less the same and therefore the odds more or less the same. So saying he would theoretically sink 1 ball in 2500 shots is still a relatively fair and accurate statement.
that's about how I felt a lot when I played golf. I played for several years & got pretty good ( I could shoot around low 80's on a par 72 course). I never hit a hole in one EVER. I have hit tons of birdies & probably an ace or two (on par 4 holes) but NEVER a hole in one on a par 3. They're just very hard to do & if you make one you have done something very special.
Francis Truong the hole in 500 would be taking 500 shots to play a single hole that might be something that you were unable to do but in this case it's 500 attempts at a tee shot
1 in 500 isn't beating the odds. It's not if you swing 2499 times and miss you will hit it on the 2500th time. He could make it on 457th swing and still miss the next 2043, which would still result in a 1 in 2500. If he had done it twice or more in under 2500 swings, then that is beating the odds
Wrong; look up "500 trials with a 0.04% chance" in Wolfram Alpha. If you scroll past the huge numbers and find "at least one success", we see that a 1 in 2500 chance (0.04% chance) means an 18.13% chance of getting (at least) a hole in one over 500 tries -- that's 4.5:1 odds. So I'd say achieving the 4.5:1 outcome is perfectly legitimately "beating the odds", at least colloquially speaking. Besides, this idea that seeing the denominator in the odds is 2500, therefore 2500 trials is the magical exact requirement, the straw that breaks the camel's back, to achieve some sort of "rigor' is misguided in any case. Even a perfectly (pseudo)random computer program generating 1s or 0s at a random 1 vs 2499 ratio will only produce exactly 1 "1" 36.8% of the time, and would erroneously "beat" or "fall short" of the odds by your suggested metric the remaining 63.2% of the time. So in short, 500 is plenty small enough to be "beating the odds" colloquially, and your need far far *more* than 2500 to accurately measure the odds with any sort of statistical rigour. Your chosen cutoff of 2500 is pointless.
There’s no technical significance to the phrase “beating the odds”, so there’s no point debating that. The closest thing is to achieve statistically significant results of better than 1/2500, which would require thousands of trials.
@@TheHuesSciTech He said 2500 because that's what the odds are for a European Pro, according to the description of the video. Thanks for the useless lesson though.
@@jeremyc9593 1 in 2500 is 0.04%, which is why I used that in my explanation. To clarify, I'm saying that cutting off after 2500 trials just because the odds are "1 in 2500" is complete nonsense, there's nothing especially rigorous about that threshold.
I remember 4 years ago I almost had 2 Aces in one round(on the first and the 9th), both were less than 1 foot of the cup, one probably the best PW I have ever struck landing dead next to the flag, and the other one was a 9, probably one of my luckiest shots, I pulled it a bit, but also hit it thin, and all my thin shots fade about 5 yards, so it basically was 2 mistakes that canceled out and give me a tap in for birdie, scored a +4 that day to win it all. I will never forget about the old days.
This is lol comedy smiling and laughing so hard - feel the pain and love the pain - made me smile so wide after watching this ! This is the one! Lollll
I love how on shots 420 and 500 you can tell he's just mentally and physically drained but he still squares up perfectly, collects himself, and then takes his shot. That's discipline. I'd be so done with the whole I'd be trying to happy gilmore it by it then
This guy has better accuracy in RL, than I have in any golf video game ever. I bet he's never felt this frustrated being 6ft or less from the cup in his life!
I wonder which is easier: 1. A hole in one in 500 shots like this, one after the other from the same spot or... 2. A hole in one in 2500 shots on different holes different days?
Many years ago, my buddy hit a hole in one, par 3, 213 yards. #1 handicap hole on our course. The next week, I missed by about 2 inches. The other guys said that they were HAPPY I didn't get it. Why? They said that the obvious question back at work would have been..."who's turn is it NEXT week!". For the record..2" is as close as I ever got, ever, been golfing since '74.
This should be a recurring series with a new golfer every week. Really entertaining.
good luck finding volunteers
I love this maybe not 500 but the pairs doing it is amazing. Also these guys are so amazing at golf lol
If this was me it would be 500 balls to hit the green
lol me too
Me too man hahaha
Too true lol... its funny but if you can't hit the green at 150 yards consistently.. ur never gonna break a 10 handicap...
Chris Wille if it was me it would be 500 balls to hit of the tee
Chris Wille Well, you're only 1 short of 500 "Likes" ...so at least that's something. :)
It's all fun and games until you show up to work at 5am and have to fill all the divots at the par 3's from this guy
at least he made one clean divot patch, id jsut break out the sod cutter and lay some new turf down
The divots are the areas that get messed up where the ball lands, not the tee box.
Per our friend "The Internet": '''Divot: a piece of turf cut out of the ground by a golf club in making a stroke.'''
Nope, those are called ball marks.
Would that not be what you were paid to do?
I mean, would it be unfair to say that if you're getting paid you should work?
I'm not surprised he didn't quite make it, that's to be expected, but I'd have liked to see a chart of where they all went!
Spoilers.
the pattern is probably more spread out than you think. they show like 5 balls within 0.5 meters of the hole. you can guess that with 500 balls, and only 5 got that close, the spread is pretty big. probably a radius of about 5-10 meters for 90% of the balls with no increments towards the center.
what kind of person reads the comments first
You would really enjoy normal distribution once again. Wouldn't you?
Peter Kelly i
This is not a fail. He is a beast for hitting 500 shots, and he was very close many times.
MrKydaman To be honest they only showed the closest shots
And there were a lot of them. We actually don't know if these were the closest, just the ones with the best reactions lol.
MrKydaman No it’s a fail,,,he was trying to get a hole in one,, even after 500 shots,, he failed. Sycophant.
mksrookies Well, here’s me thinking holes in ones were easy,, and no luck involved. So that’s why there’s so few of them? Thanks for that.👍
The sound of the strike is so pure.
Ratbacon For real!
Hey man.....Been waiting a while here.
Can we play through?
HaHa
I actually laughed out loud at that
Me too! LOL
Great
One time I had a guy dropping balls on every hole to rehit.. UGH, finally I cranked one to the par 4 green at 360 yds and he picked up the pace like the SOB he was.
If you want to practice, go to the driving range.
Feel bad for the guy who has to replace the pitch marks and divots
Jabber thehut Pitch marks get fixed, not replaced. Divots on a tee box generally don't get replaced. They get sanded and seeded.
Jabber thehut it’s not that hard sir
He had a nice little 2' x 2' patch of ground that he divoted out by the end there. I would think the groundskeeper would just drop a square of sod on there there and call it a day!
why would you feel bad for someone whos job it is to do exactly that. not to mention they definitely hired or brought someone exactly for that purpose here. bending over and working the grass a little bit, sooooooo hard hahaha.
It was likely a temporary tee box set at 145 yards, near the cart path for the challenge.
Wow that first shot
Green keepers will be so happy in the morning.......
The Hop piece of cake if they work on a champiomship course. They‘ve seen worse :D
This is by far the best performance in the challenge. The guy was throwing absolute darts.
Slowly but surely losing his mind 😂
Jacques Basson
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More of this please
do it with every pro and see who makes the most. new series.
wow, that must have been exhausting hitting 500 balls and not getting even one in.
How To Make Sushi - dunno what you're talking about that just sounds like a day of golf to me...
Kent Yammo 500 balls? That's only 428 over Par but okay.
me getting 100metres close
have you hit more than 100 balls in a range
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"BYOH HOH HOH HOH AH HOH HOH HOH"
I was wondering how to spell that, lol. Reminded me of the shark part on Strange Wilderness.
Right when I saw this comment I started dying
Can you imagine waiting behind this guy all day
Imagine getting paid to stand behind smeone.
Your not getting paid
Josh Watkins lol 😂
Do this with a bunch more players! That'd be swell!!
European Tour Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Jordan Spieth
+European Tour Daly
0:51 when your friend tells a funny joke and everyone laughs when you don’t find it funny but you have to play along with it .
Next can we see if Ernie Els can make a putt in 500 attempts
Lol ouch
Man the divot patch he created is sweet, wish they showed that a bit more. So consistent. Would love to see Rory try or Jason Day.
Hiral Patel I'd love to see more golfers at the range leave such a nice divot patch!
True Joey Breezes, true
Not so much for the green keeper Not to mention 500 or so pitch marks on the green
"145 wind of the right" the caddie says. "Are you sure?" "Yes I checked it a few times today." xD lmao
Love this guys attitude. I have watched this video at least 10 time
This is probably one of the best golf videos. I've seen in a long time. It would be cool to see more videos like this one.
1:47 I mean... Technically it did go in
It just popped back out lol
Candi Soda That's what she said
You mean that's what he said =D
Candi Soda jr
candi soda you dont the 'thats what she said' joke do u?
just saying but your profile pic is the expression that guy was feeling
So many amazing shots...unbelievable that none jarred. What course was this at?
It's not unbelievable but actually quite probable that none went in.
1:37 are you kidding me.....how did that not go in and 3:51 🤣🤣 "where was this, short, long..... over it" 😂
Well that's some divot. And I wouldn't like to repair those pitch marks.
David t Ok. Good thing no one asked you to.
He did it right. All in one grouping. The tees can be moved away from that location and there's plenty of room around it to hit.
He finally got his hole in 1 at the Irish open today!🇮🇪
Everytime he hits the balls its like a Call of Duty hitmarker
This is a very entertaining series. I like the fact that they don't always make it. Adds a bit of suspense.
It would've been epic if the first one went in and he just drops the club and walks away.
That’s the most emotion I’ve ever seen in him!
When did Novak Djokovic start playing golf?
that video shows that golf is one of the most difficult sports on earth. Even the Tour Pro hook balls or shot terrible shots. I love it
shot 2500 sees him playing from a 4ft hole
beardy736 😂
nah thats vijay singhs false eyeball
I've watched 4 of these. Only 1 hole-in-one. But the psychology of the players is fascinating to watch! They get so emotionally invested.
I like to imagine a mountain of snapped clubs just off screen.
Once, on a par 3, one of the golfers behind us, shot and landed on the green when we were still doing our last putt. You can't really see the green from the tee because of a hill. The guy's shot was about 25 feet from the cup and I went over and grabbed his ball and dropped it in the cup. I can only imagine the guy's reaction to finding the ball in the cup, thinking for these last 20 years, he actually got a hole in one.
He has an incredible golf swing tho woah!
I love his attitude the whole time, he’s just trying to have fun out there 💯
Almost all hole in ones I have seen roll in. If you hit a high ball flight with check just don't get much chance to hole as ball doesn't cover much green.
Will iam Excellent point. I was thinking that while watching. Either a green with more slope near the hole, or a shorter shot with a wedge that spins higher would improve the odds here.
Mine was a 1 hop on a front pin. Crazy things can happen. Feels bad though, the guy must have been so tired.
Good point. Perhaps he should have taken PW and tried to rip it back in. Or 3/4 a 7 iron. Given what he was attempting, shot 153 that jammed the flagstick was the one, it just didn't stick.
I hit a backspin hole-in-one. Pitch mark was 7 feet behind the pin.
Thanks for recommending this youtube. It changed my life.
If the hole was a foot wide he'd have made a bunch of those...
Golf would be a lot more fun & popular if the hole were bigger.
Kevin C wtf
And if it was a mile wide he would have made them all. What's your point?
"wind off the right", "are you sure, Yes I've checked it a few times" brilliant
I THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA MAKE IT ON 420 AND I WAS FIXIN TO LOSE MY SHIT
Please make this a series!! Let's see Henrik or Rose next!!
my body would hate me after 500 swings
Robby Proto I know, right lol. I go to the driving range and I hurt after I hit around 100. I know he’s a pro golfer, but still. Couldn’t feel great the next morning lol
He's got a much smoother swing than you and I and doesn't have to exert himself as much for each swing (or so I'd imagine)..
What a good sport Edoardo is! Fun to watch
Imagine hittin’ it on first try.
This video is just beautifully created!!!!! Fantastic Job
He should have been clubbed up to a 7 iron and choked up a bit. Something with a lower trajectory aimed at the front of the green has a much better chance of rolling in. The wind is less of a factor, balls aren't checking up and rolling in a random direction, less fatigue on your body and there's no concentration of divots near the hole.
Glad your hs coach taught you better than a pro golfer lol
Caleb Behrenwald he’s a pro golfer, you’re so dumb dude
might as well punch a light driver on the par 3 and leave it short so it has a better chance of rolling in
Surge Spot on
I think you may have a point.
"Are you sure?" "Yeah; I checked it a few times today." Haha brilliant.
This guy reminds me of Novak Djokovic, in both appearance and personality.
My god ,so close so many times. I liked his energy though but kept laughing all the way.
Executive summary: he doesn't
Love the ET challenges!
next player miguel angel jimenez
Miguel angel jimenez chances are 1/100 on a par 3 like that ahah
Horacio Alvarez-Clementi mechanic would do it first time lol
What a player, so many beautiful shots.
he makes it on 05:51
Aztlack Pädlo thanks, I couldn't sit through it
Lol
Savage!
That is a good one but you did not fool me
This guy was amazing so close so many times. I know he didnt make one but what talent and skill to be as accurate as he was so many times over such a long day
What was his GIR %? I bet over 90%
I read somewhere that he only missed the green only a couple of times, and that 189 of the 500 were within 8 or 6 feet
498/500
that's pretty solid
Pretty solid? That's world class right there. I Wouldn't even land 10 in green lmao
Should do this with more golfers! That was cool to watch.
Moooore
I hope they keep making these videos with pro's from around the world!!!!
if there is 1 chance for 2500 why dont try this with 2500 balls
Probably becouse the chance is bigger when you play 1 hole over and over
That would take days. It took molinari 12 hours for 500
The point was to defy the odds of a pro. Not to prove the statistic
To make this a valid argument he would have to hit all 2500 at the same time. Otherwise EACH shot is 1 in 2500 chance. The number of balls hit doesn't decrease that number unless they are hit at once.
+BigRedRIP Well yes and no. The statistic would revert if the hole he played each time was different because the statistic depends on the placement of the ball and pin. ie: If a player took a shot from the same spot with the same pin placement on the same hole he would get 1 hole in one from every 2500 shots. In this case, however, he moves the ball slightly which technically changes the odds and makes it harder but because the divergence of each shot is so small in this case maybe 3 or 4cm on every shot we can assume the shot to be more or less the same and therefore the odds more or less the same. So saying he would theoretically sink 1 ball in 2500 shots is still a relatively fair and accurate statement.
that's about how I felt a lot when I played golf. I played for several years & got pretty good ( I could shoot around low 80's on a par 72 course). I never hit a hole in one EVER. I have hit tons of birdies & probably an ace or two (on par 4 holes) but NEVER a hole in one on a par 3. They're just very hard to do & if you make one you have done something very special.
How's this a hole-in-one? If anything it's an attempt at a hole-in-500...
Francis Truong the hole in 500 would be taking 500 shots to play a single hole that might be something that you were unable to do but in this case it's 500 attempts at a tee shot
Yeah his odds weren't that good, 18%, almost set up for failure
the mental toughness is the most impressive part. being so close and resetting over and over is the most impressive part of this
It technically wouldn't be a hole in one if he hit more than one ball.
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Mike Aucoin hole in one means one swing on one ball
Yes, but typically, people don't count a second chance. Or third, or fourth...
every time you step up to a new par 3 that's a second, third, fourth, etc chance.
Mike Aucoin start->finish in one shot is a hole in one. If you play a course twice, you can still get a hole in one
This guy needs a hug! He was all around that hole
Imagine Tiger in his day, I'd be on him to make a few!
Forget Tiger, what about Miguel Angel Jiminez?
guy who fixes divots: DID SOMEBODY DIE ON 6?????
1 in 500 isn't beating the odds. It's not if you swing 2499 times and miss you will hit it on the 2500th time. He could make it on 457th swing and still miss the next 2043, which would still result in a 1 in 2500. If he had done it twice or more in under 2500 swings, then that is beating the odds
Wrong; look up "500 trials with a 0.04% chance" in Wolfram Alpha. If you scroll past the huge numbers and find "at least one success", we see that a 1 in 2500 chance (0.04% chance) means an 18.13% chance of getting (at least) a hole in one over 500 tries -- that's 4.5:1 odds. So I'd say achieving the 4.5:1 outcome is perfectly legitimately "beating the odds", at least colloquially speaking.
Besides, this idea that seeing the denominator in the odds is 2500, therefore 2500 trials is the magical exact requirement, the straw that breaks the camel's back, to achieve some sort of "rigor' is misguided in any case. Even a perfectly (pseudo)random computer program generating 1s or 0s at a random 1 vs 2499 ratio will only produce exactly 1 "1" 36.8% of the time, and would erroneously "beat" or "fall short" of the odds by your suggested metric the remaining 63.2% of the time.
So in short, 500 is plenty small enough to be "beating the odds" colloquially, and your need far far *more* than 2500 to accurately measure the odds with any sort of statistical rigour. Your chosen cutoff of 2500 is pointless.
@Richard
By that logic, hitting twice or more in under 2500 still wouldn't be beating the odds cause he could miss the next 2500 or 5000
There’s no technical significance to the phrase “beating the odds”, so there’s no point debating that.
The closest thing is to achieve statistically significant results of better than 1/2500, which would require thousands of trials.
@@TheHuesSciTech He said 2500 because that's what the odds are for a European Pro, according to the description of the video. Thanks for the useless lesson though.
@@jeremyc9593 1 in 2500 is 0.04%, which is why I used that in my explanation. To clarify, I'm saying that cutting off after 2500 trials just because the odds are "1 in 2500" is complete nonsense, there's nothing especially rigorous about that threshold.
I remember 4 years ago I almost had 2 Aces in one round(on the first and the 9th), both were less than 1 foot of the cup, one probably the best PW I have ever struck landing dead next to the flag, and the other one was a 9, probably one of my luckiest shots, I pulled it a bit, but also hit it thin, and all my thin shots fade about 5 yards, so it basically was 2 mistakes that canceled out and give me a tap in for birdie, scored a +4 that day to win it all. I will never forget about the old days.
Spoiler he doesn't make it
Seems like a genuinely nice guy, I was really hoping one would go in for him.
This is lol comedy smiling and laughing so hard - feel the pain and love the pain - made me smile so wide after watching this ! This is the one! Lollll
0:50 best part of the entire video...that laugh is amazing. Please dub it over everything ASAP
You guys should make this a series and get other pro golfers to do this
I love how the top comment spoils the results. Thanks mate 👍
I love how on shots 420 and 500 you can tell he's just mentally and physically drained but he still squares up perfectly, collects himself, and then takes his shot. That's discipline. I'd be so done with the whole I'd be trying to happy gilmore it by it then
Hahahha this guy is a good sport, funny as hell!! Great sense of humour!!
More of Edoardo, he is so funny!!!
I can't be the only one who got a laugh out of this.
This guy is an animal and on point...he should not be disappointed at all! Great vid
that's 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Damn, it’s about time ! I was about to call the club house for slow play! I’ve be waiting to play though for hours!
that was fun to watch!!! oh man, almost had it on the first try. nice!!!
I love this challenge... Completely NUKES the Ego.
This guy has better accuracy in RL, than I have in any golf video game ever. I bet he's never felt this frustrated being 6ft or less from the cup in his life!
Goes to show how efficient these guys swings are. To hit that many balls and not absolutely lose all feeling in your arms
so consistent. this is why he is a pro
If you think about it the video length spoils the video
I wonder which is easier:
1. A hole in one in 500 shots like this, one after the other from the same spot or...
2. A hole in one in 2500 shots on different holes different days?
The consistent "pure" strikes are seriously impressive.
Great video! Thanks!
Dude should have made at least two. Super close. I really like the 500 ball challenge vids.
Many years ago, my buddy hit a hole in one, par 3, 213 yards. #1 handicap hole on our course. The next week, I missed by about 2 inches. The other guys said that they were HAPPY I didn't get it. Why? They said that the obvious question back at work would have been..."who's turn is it NEXT week!". For the record..2" is as close as I ever got, ever, been golfing since '74.
i had my volume on maximum by accident when i started this video and i think everyone in my dorm building heard it