The No Aces Club

[Matt Aubin]

I've been playing for almost 3 years. In that time, I've made every long shot you can imagine... lots of 100-200'+ fairway shots, safari tee aces, Ace Race shorty tee ace, object aces, chain outs, 'cubby' aces (multiple throws until you get it in), and metal hits, jeez i must have a zillion of those. I stopped posting about hitting metal.

Most of my local courses have many ace run holes. My short game and putter driving are pretty damn good and getting better daily.

But I have yet to hit an actual, in a real round, first shot from the teepad hole in one.


How long did it take for you to get your first ace? Anyone else in this pathetic club?

hopefully by posting this I'll get one soon.

[Kenji Cline]

I hear you Matt. I'm in this club as well. A little lower in standing though as the only 1 I've ever put on a card was a 140ft shot at a pole hole that slid up and bumped the bottom of the pole at Gilbert Lakes hole 1 I never had a cubby ace. I have hit some >200 ft fairway aces but never off the tee.

[Jeff Wiechowski]

Started playing in 1985.
Got my first ace August 1, 1989 with a DX Cobra
257 ft - Hole 8 Raintree Park, Troy MI

Looking for ace #14 before the year is out.......

[Kenji Cline]

Started playing in 1985.
Got my first ace August 1, 1989 with a DX Cobra
257 ft - Hole 8 Raintree Park, Troy MI

Looking for ace #14 before the year is out.......

Hey this is a pity party NO ACES ALLOWED!!

[Jeff Wiechowski]

Started playing in 1985.
Got my first ace August 1, 1989 with a DX Cobra
257 ft - Hole 8 Raintree Park, Troy MI

Looking for ace #14 before the year is out.......

Hey this is a pity party NO ACES ALLOWED!!

Ahem.......

How long did it take for you to get your first ace?

[Matt Aubin]

well to be fair i did ask for how long.... looks like Jeff is in at 4 years.

[Jeff Wiechowski]

well to be fair i did ask for how long.... looks like Jeff is in at 4 years.

....and had an 11 year dry spell too !

[Matt Stroika]

Started in 1989 and didnt get my first ace for 7 years. Played plenty of short courses and probably had 15-20 chain outs before one finally stuck. I guess it kept me coming back for more.

Now I have 15 and counting after tagging one while on vacation in WI a couple of weeks ago.

Keep throwing at the basket and it will happen.

[Kenji Cline]

I've been playing 4 years this month so I'm due now.

[Brad Harris]

My first one was complete luck, about three years after I started. It kicked off a tree right into the chains. It took 5 years to get my second (last year). First throw of last year's Battle of Saratoga, no luck this time, just hit it dead on.

[David Backstrom]

Took me about 3 years to get my first ace. Started playing sometime in 2002 and got my first one sometime in 2005 on the old hole 13 at Buffumville. (still got my name on the plaque on the tee sign there) Since then I've accumulated a total of 8. With the absolute best one being hole 16 Silver at Pyramids!!

[Marco Iannello]

I started playing in 2003,.. didn't hit my first ace until last july(2010) ... over 7 years

Now I have 3 in the past year.

Just like Stroika said.. keep throwing at it

[Eric Kevorkian]

Threw a disc for the first time December 2007. First ace came 4 mos. later...April 2008...Hole 13 w-w @ Borderland

I think someone at Borderland hit an ace their second round out.

Didn't Mullen hit one early on in his career too?

[Mike Murphy]

Playing since the summer of 05 or 06 and no aces. Mostly because I'm not very good.

[Karl Molitoris]

Potentially long post alert !!


While an 'ace' is neat, don't put too much solace in them. Unless you're all about flash. I have ball golf friends who would rather have (I swear) a birdie and a double bogey than 2 pars . They believe it's all about the 'one great shot'. Take the high road; worry about the lowest possible 18 hole score.

Example: To the best of my knowledge, no one has yet aced the zen hole at Fairfield U. And it certainly isn't for lack of trying. Just means that people haven't been lucky (what is it, 130 ft downhill ?). Yet I've seen my share of bogies on it! JDB stated it to me first the concept of having a goal that is to 'get a guaranteed 2' on it every time. I believe he's right in that approach. I've tried to emulate that and have gone 2,2,2,2,2,3 in the 3 FU Opens I've played. I'm guessing I've "made ground" vs. the field.

Heck, at the 104 ft 9th at Rutgers I used the same method. Am averaging a 2.15 in well over 100 rounds there. I never "go for it" because I've had WAY more 3's via roll-a-ways and missed come backers than aces. Yes I did ace it...but I'll admit it was a mistake (a 3:32am flicked putter that as soon as I threw it I thought oh crap, I'm gonna have a 30'er coming ba...SMASH...who's luckier than me?).

It's common sense, but if you want to go for aces you'd do best by NOT playing b-b B-lands or Gold MH (or a lot of other courses in N.E. for that matter).

And it has more to do with 1) luck, 2) being able to reach the hole in the air, and 3) throwing enough shots (a blind pig can find an acorn in the woods once in a while), than it does with being "good".

Cheef is "good"; Dave R. is "good"; and a lot of others too! Just not lucky...yet.

Karl

[Jay Bayer]

Matt, I would suggest aiming for the basket on the first throw.

[Jim Bobka]

Started playing in '02, just got my first this year, Flatrock hole 9. I haven't played as much as most guys (started when I was 39), so the percentage is way down.

Hit my only Ace Race ace on 16 at Devens, guessing '08-'09?; Stroika was there to witness it.

waited a long time.

[Matt Stroika]

Started playing in '02, just got my first this year, Flatrock hole 9. I haven't played as much as most guys (started when I was 39), so the percentage is way down.

Hit my only Ace Race ace on 16 at Devens, guessing '08-'09?; Stroika was there to witness it.

waited a long time.

The downhill one from the rope. I remember that.

[Eric Kretschmar]

I am a proud member of this club... started playing June '10, so I can't complain (as others have proven, sometimes it takes much longer than a year). However, wondering if anyone else has turned into a "No Aces Club" snob? What I mean is, I would love an ace, but there are holes now that I play or have played that I hope I don't ace, as I would have wasted my chance on a hole that everyone else has already proven to be "easily" aceable. Are others without an ace getting selective about where/how they want that ace to come? I am almost embarrassed to admit such a rediculous thought...

Crane Hill #2 - I dream about it

[David Backstrom]

Eric,
I think once you finally break out of the No-Aces-Club you won't really have that same feeling. My first Ace was old Buffumville #13. Not a very far or difficult hole, and countless other people had already Aced it before me, but it really didn't take away from my feelings about my first Ace. My most epic and awesome Ace has been hole #16 Silver at Pyramids, and as far as I know I'm only the 2nd person in the history of the course to Ace that hole, but even that doesn't compare to the feeling I got when I get my first ever Ace on a MUCH easier hole...

[Titan Bariloni]

I only have one and it is a random..was going to pyramids with brastrapless ...we got to rt122 and said srcew it lets go play tully...I had no disc so I used his bar stamp buzz and something I can't remember...on hole 3 the old layout..some simple easy lil ace ho hole that had been hit what seems like by everyone...a group of six was letting us play through....I threw it on a rope and banged it right in their faces almost literally..my first shot with a buzz on a DG hole..I didn't celebrate that much just to show the newbs that I am da shhhiiit and can do that all the time kinda thing...I can't and now I am cursed...over the years those newbs became club members and my mystique was lost ....so the point...ya don't have to be a snob on where ya get it do it in style...just don't be a snob when ya get it..or then you will be cursed again...I took Dereks Buzz and now its a wallbanger...who would of thought barstamped buzzs would be so highly valued

[Scott Howard]

Sean Bednarz is about 15 years into this game---still a virgin, well-sorta...We were playing hole 16 S-B at Warwick and and he put it in the S. Dirty tease...

[Mike Zorovich]

Matt, I would suggest aiming for the basket on the first throw.

he's right

2 years and then a year later got two in less then a week.

[Matt Aubin]

aw c'mon i always run shorter holes. who had the near ace yesterday? me. again. hole 9 at cranbury, between the two big trees, juuust under the basket skip off the rock.

[Shawn Mullen]

Threw a disc for the first time December 2007. First ace came 4 mos. later...April 2008...Hole 13 w-w @ Borderland

I think someone at Borderland hit an ace their second round out.

Didn't Mullen hit one early on in his career too?

Yep....I did. The first time I ever played with a golf disc, I had used lids a few times before that playing on the object course at Springfield College when I went to school there, and one other time at Wick. Three of us went to Farrs in Manchester and bought one of the innova 3 packs. 150 Leopard, Shark, Aviar. We each played with one of the discs. I got the red shark and it found the basket on hole 5.

I wish I still had that disc. After our rounds whoever won got to pick which disc they wanted to use next time, I think Dan eventually lost that shark on hole 14 under the leaves.

[Keith Hughes]

I belong in this thread playing about two yrs now and have made many great ace runs have hit chains basket top rim and nothing but I keep attacking and going for it I dont sit there and throw myhole bag at same basket hit ace and be proud anyone could do this but playing for real and hitting few holes in is were im hoping !! In time I shall bang chains

[Jeff Wiechowski]

The effort will make the first one all that sweeter, Keith.

[Matt DeAngelis]

Still have not thrown an ace, lefty. I'll get one this year.

[Jeff Wiechowski]

Still have not thrown an ace, lefty. I'll get one this year.

I came really close last year in my short stint as a lefty.

[Brian Giggey]

Played disc golf since 2004. Nothing.
Played ball golf since 1990. Nothing.

One day...one day...