From talking to Masters of the tee to cup parlor trick over the years I’ve gleaned a couple key pointers.
1) Tee it up real low, like barely off the ground.
2) Sure, take dead aim but no need for flag horse blinders. Don’t forget to factor in roll when picking your target. Determine if you should be right or left of the pin before firing.
3) Channel your inner Brian Harmon
Why Harman, at The Barclays in 2015 Brian airmailed his tee shot on No. 3 priority express into
the four and a quarter inch cup 183 yards away.
Eleven holes later he gave the gallery at Plainfield Country Club something to really remember by dealing golf’s greatest tee-to-cup parlor trick one more time, carding a 218-yard ace. Cousin to blue-footed booby bird sightings in the northern hemisphere and buzzer beating full-court swishes in basketball, the one-and-done golf shot is our pastime’s sash-winning spectacle, and a
player potting two in one round is almost unthinkable. This was only the third time in PGA Tour history that the mind-blowing deed had been done. While the tradition calls for a round of drinks at the clubhouse, there’s not much precedent for pulling a twofer so Harman splurged, treating the assembled media to three hundred beers and a bottle of Crown. He cracked wise about it the next day on the Dan Patrick Show: “I wouldn’t wish my bar tab on my worst enemy.” The odds of pulling a Harman and potting a pair of hole-in-ones in a single round are astronomical. Golf Digest once ball-parked the slim to none occurrence at 67 million to one.
