“What’s in question is Lanning’s only hole-in-one,” McMurphy wrote. “This summer at The Hay, Pebble Beach’s nine-hole par-3 course, Lanning made a hole-in-one. The same Dan Lanning who has a 16.7 handicap and shot a 108 at Eugene Country Club last month. At The Hay, however, Lanning aced the 61-yard seventh hole named after Jack Nicklaus. Despite the short distance, Lanning told me ‘it counts’ as a hole-in-one.”

The Oregon golf coach, Casey Martin apparently heard about Lanning’s ace, and he was college teammates with Tiger Woods at Stanford. He told Lanning to text Woods and ask if his hole-in-one was legit despite the short distance. This is what Woods said in response:

“Yes, it counts,” Woods wrote in the text. “I also made my first hole-in-one on a Par 3 course – when I was 8.”

Tigers Woods made his first hole-in-one a little earlier than Dan Lanning did, but hey, better late than never right?

It wasn’t a very long hole, but Lanning still did make a hole-in-one, and that’s every golfer’s dream. He has nothing left to give to the game now.