Chico, Calif.
Elsie McLean thought she might have lost her ball on the par-3, 100-yard fourth hole at Bidwell Park last Thursday.
Instead, the 102-year-old Chico woman became the oldest golfer to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course.
Because of the slope of the green, McLean and her partners couldn’t see where her ball landed after she teed off.
Her friends found it in the cup.
“I said: ‘Oh, my Lord. It can’t be true. It can’t be true.’ I was so excited.” she said.
It was McLean’s first ace.
“Well, everybody wants a hole-in- one, and I said, ‘Why can’t I have a hole-in-one?’ I came within inches once,” McLean told a Chico television station.
McLean, who used a driver, broke the age record of 101 set by Harold Stilson in 2001 at Deerfield Country Club in Florida. McLean will appear on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on April 24 to celebrate her accomplishment.
“For an old lady,” she said, “I still hit the ball pretty good.”
