Briton Rose hits historic hole-in-one
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BRITAIN’S Justin Rose, the 2013 US Open champion, fired the first hole-in-one on the new Rio Olympic Golf Course yesterday with an ace at the par-3 fourth hole.
In the opening round of the first Olympic golf tournament in 112 years, Rose hit his tee shot into the cup from 188 yards.
The 36-year-old Englishman is thought to have the first hole-in-one in Olympic history, with his shot sending Games records-keepers scurrying to the archives to find out for certain.
He sandwiched the ace between birdies at the third and fifth holes but a bogey at the par-3 sixth left him on 3 under, level fifth in the early going on a windy day over the links-style layout.
Earlier, golf made a quiet and subdued return to the Olympics with Brazil’s Adilson Da Silva hitting the first shot in front of a handful of spectators.
Da Silva was followed by Canada’s Graham DeLaet, whose countryman George Lyon won the last Olympic golf tournament in 1904, with South Korean An Byeong-hun completing the threesome.
The tournament lost much of its prestige after the world’s four top-ranked players, Australian Jason Day, Americans Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth and Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy, opted not to take part, citing concerns over the Zika virus.
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