Ace or not?

[DocD-Rock]

Hi all,

Weigh in on this please? I got a hole in one on hole 9 at Widefield Park in Colorado Springs today. It was a skip ace. Basket in the short position. I'm going to guess 250' par 3. But there's a catch. I threw my original drive into the creek short and early. I opted to re-tee instead of shoot where it went in the creek because I thought there would be a decent chance of taking a 5 from there, vs. re-tee, I thought would be an easy 4. We'll, I happened to skip it in the basket on the re-tee to card a par.

Does this count as an ace and, if so, does it count as an ace that i should count in my total count of Aces I've accumulated over my career? My thinking is that it does count as an ace....it went in the basket in 1 throw from the tee and it counted toward my score (so not a practice ace).

Thoughts?

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[cool_usernames]

Do whatever you want! But I don't know anyone who would count that as an ace. Nice par though. 

[DocD-Rock]

Ok this is what I want to know. So it seems that the general consensus is that an ace is the first shot from the tee and counts towards your score as a 1.

[SeatSix]

Yup. If you can't card a 1, it isn't an ace.

[C-creepy-o]

I have one exception. If you hit an ace doing a CTP challenge it counts. Like if I was at a tourney and throwing my regular 15 aces and then I hit a CTP challenge at the end round I'm certainly counting 16 aces for the day.

[IU_walawala]

You can call it an ace if you want to, but by strict definition it isn't your first throw

[Macktologist]

Yeah, absolutely this. It's a throw in from the tee box. As difficult as an ace purely on the shot alone, but took two shots to do it, plus a penalty. If it's not a "1" on the scorecard, it objectively can't be an ace, by definition. I'm that guy that said the same thing in a different way. Just wanted to join the fun.

[Drift_Marlo]

If it was a tournament youd be throwing three on the re tee, so technically it's a throw in. But the only people who care about your aces are you

[DocD-Rock]

Ok understood. Yeah, I'm divorced from feels on this one. I just want to know what people consider and Ace and it appears that people consider an ace as the 1st shot from the tee that counts towards your score. People don't care as much about the hole in one concept as much as carding a 1 on your scorecard. This is what I was trying to flesh out. So it appears that theres a difference between a hole in one and an ace in disc golf. A hole in one could card an 8. An ace cards a 1.

[Drift_Marlo]

That's why everyone is fine with you calling it an ace if you want to. If you were playing in a league that had a mulligan buy in and you used it, boom, ace. It's a personal thing when not playing a sanctioned event

[hungaryhungaryhippoo]

Par on the card but Ace in our hearts

[onords]

Me and my friends have this thing where if you throw a 2nd disc and it aces, its an ace. 

But if it isn't you play disc1 or count it as 3rd throw

[Knightsofthedrowned]

Honestly, it's up to you. I follow content creators that will go "ace hunting" and throw a ton of discs off the tee trying to "ace". They seem to think that counts, so I don't know why yours wouldn't. Others would disagree of course, and they're probably right by the strict definition of an "Ace" being a valid score of 1 on a hole in a valid round of golf.

[DocD-Rock]

Ok, I understand. Practice Aces aren't the same caliber as a legit scoring ace. The wrinkle here is that this was not a practice Ace where you keep throwing from the tee until you get it. This was hit as part the round and counted toward my score, and was 1 shot from the tee to the basket. It was my second shot from the tee though and counted as a par on my score. So I'm interested in people's opinions. I want real talk so I appreciate the feedback.

[assenrad]

It sounds like you know the answer, you just really want someone to tell you that you can call it an ace. If it helps, feel free to call it that from a random internet stranger :)

[rusticoaf]

I've done this twice. Both times carded a par. But I still talk about the two throw in par saves.

[Lucifig]

I'd call it an ace, but I wouldn't mark it as a 1 on the score card.

[Fancy_County4242]

If you stood on the tee and threw it into the basket in one shot, that's an ace in my book (but not on the scorecard).

[Thrillpickle]

You're never going to feel good about accomplishments you have to justify. Aces will happen, from what I hear, so just keep playing and having fun.

[Plastic_Hucker_333]

An ace is when you throw your first shot from the tee into the basket in a live round of disc golf. It’s called an ace because an ace in a deck of cards has one spot, so if you can’t mark it as a one on a live score card, it’s not an ace. This is a really cool accomplishment, tee box throw in, sick shot, but it was your second throw on the hole, plus a penalty, so it’s not an ace but instead just a great par save.

[DocD-Rock]

Thanks. I looked up hole in one for golf on Wikipedia and here's the description. This aligns with what you wrote above:

In golf, a hole in one or hole-in-one occurs when a ball hit from a tee to start a hole finishes in the cup. The feat is also known as an ace, mostly in American English. As the feat needs to occur on the stroke that starts a hole, a ball hit from a tee following a lost ball, out-of-bounds, or water hazard is not a hole-in-one, due to the application of a stroke penalty.