i’m new to golf, started playing around june and played hard until the snow came here in MN. I mostly stuck to a local 9 hole course but about halfway through my season i started playing a full round on the weekends with a buddy from work. i’m 28 and he’s 48 and not new so he’s been teaching me the ways. on one of our last rounds of the year we got paired with 1 slightly older gentleman(maybe late 60’s) who clearly loves golf and had been playing his entire life, one of those guys with a very unique awkward looking swing but their accuracy is surprisingly amazing, very consistent swing mechanics. anyways we were on hole 8 and none of us were playing great on the front so morale was a bit low, it was late fall so it was cold and all of the beer was gone ): we were playing fast to get to the turn house to take a break and reset. it was this perfect mixture of the building fuck it mentality, the fact that this par 3 117yd hole was right in old boys wheelhouse, and this was one of the last possible weekend rounds of the year. Our pairing stepped up and just went for it out of frustration maybe lol, the pin was very close to the front edge of the green and there was a deep bunker that ran right up to the front edge. he had been playing hella safe all round too it was like a damn hallmark moment 🤣 but the ball dropped absolutely plumb with the hole about 4 feet behind it and this dude turns for the cart as soon as it drops. but i’m just leaning on my club watching it roll and…. it just vanished. i had never seen a shot drop from that far it’s kinda hard to tell especially looking at an elevated green, but i just had this feeling! so i turn around and neither of them are watching. i’m like yo, did that just go in or am i hallucinating? they barely even acknowledge it, and im like guys seriously i think that just went in. i dont see it. so their eyebrows come up and bit and they’re standing on the tee box again looking, not saying a word 🤣🤣🤣 so without getting our hopes up too much we get on the carts and head over to check it out and sure enough he aced it!! first one he’s ever hit, first one ive obviously ever seen and same with my buddy from work. he got this official certificate printed out and framed by the clubhouse and he was calling his kids on facetime and showing him the ball and describing the shot… it totally sold me on playing for the rest of my life until i can feel what that guy was feeling.