Hit the middle of the green, let the slope take it down, easy hole-in-one! That’s how it worked for one man in Finland…
Steven Brown aced the par-3 7th at the Finnish Challenge on Friday afternoon thanks to a perfect 7-iron.
It comes just a day after Lauri Ruuska carded a 59, only the fourth ever sub-60 round in European Challenge Tour history.
It is the first televised hole-in-one for the Englishman, and he couldn’t quite believe it.
“First hole-in-one in a tournament. It is an amazing feeling really. It’s weird actually when it disappears, you almost don’t believe it,” Brown said.
“Basically it was a 7-iron, about 185, 188 yards, something like that,” Brown explained after the round.
“I was aiming a couple of yards left and at first, I wasn’t sure if it was going to get there. I was wanting it to go.
“It landed and the slope of the green goes towards the hole. It went towards it, and it disappeared.
“I knew it was a good line and I knew it was an area of the green where it feeds in, so if you get it right, just like all of us did really. It was just mine that hit the right bit of the slope and it went in.
“I can’t wait to see it actually!”
Brown carded a second round of 65 thanks to three birdies and an eagle to go along with the hole-in-one on the 7th hole.
The Englishman won the Portugal Masters on the DP World Tour back in 2019, and he is in a good position to grab another win this week.
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