Hole-in-ones are rare in the game of golf, but many golfers have had their share of them. But golfer Joe Graney's hole-in-one was a real eye-opener.
Joe Graney, a native of Stout, Florida, suffers from cataract eye disease, a common ailment that can be fatal to golfers. For this reason, Joe Graney had cataract surgery in 1992. On the seventh day after his surgery, he made a hole-in-one while swinging at the Heritage Ridge Golf Club, and Graney was shocked and delighted to make such a superhuman play for the first time in his golfer's career. Even more amazing, however, was the fact that a few weeks later he had another operation to remove a cataract from his left eye, and still on the seventh day after the operation, he scored another hole-in-one.
I can finally see the white ball," said Graney after his two scores, "I've been swinging the course blind for years. Graney's first post-surgery hole-in-one came with a 9-iron at Pa. 3.110 yards, on the 11th hole, hitting the ball directly into the hole. His second post-surgery swing, with a 5-iron, was a tee shot to the hole in one at Pa. 3.160 yards, seventh hole.
Many golfers don't get a hole-in-one once in their lives, and I got two holes-in-one in less than two months, said Graney, but, with great humor, he said, I wouldn't recommend that people improve their game by having their cataracts removed.
