Cool Golf News

Two bits of golf news is pretty interesting.
In the Travelers PGA event, an amateur is leading the field after two days. From ESPN: Patrick Cantlay showed up at the Travelers Championship with no intentions of turning pro until he finishes his last three years at UCLA.
A record round Friday on the PGA Tour -- just one week after he was low amateur at the U.S. Open -- makes that a tougher decision.
In what already has been a month to remember, the 19-year-old Cantlay turned in his most inspiring moment yet by breaking the course record at TPC River Highlands with a 10-under 60 for the lowest round ever on tour by an amateur.
Last week, the sophomore-to-be at UCLA said the earliest he would turn pro would be "after I get my degree." But after two strong rounds put him atop the leaderboard in the rain-suspended second round, he was starting to soften. http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=6702080
Right now, Cantlay leads by 4 strokes- he is 13 under par.
From the drudge Report comes this astounding golf news, where two competitors shot a hole in 1 one the same hole in Kansas.
From Kansas.com:
On the 212-yard par 3 hole, Greg Bontrager and Justin Pressnall, involved in match play against one another, made back-to-back holes-in-one.
Stay with me here.
Pressnall, raised in Moundridge and now living in McPherson, hit first. The wind was blowing gently toward the No. 17 green as he launched a six-iron.
It was a pretty shot, one that was definitely going to land on the green.
But Paul Voran, who was in the foursome, screamed out that it was something more than just a good shot. He said Pressnall's ball went into the cup, although it was difficult for anyone to see exactly what happened.
Clearly, everyone in the group needed a moment to contemplate. And to wonder.
Then Bontrager, a music teacher in Buhler who lives in Newton, stepped to the tee box. He and Pressnall barely knew one another from their participation in the Hesston men's club. They've never been golfing buddies and could never have known they were about to do something so incredible, so amazing, so unbelievable that they would forever be bound together.
Using a 23-degree hybrid, Bontrager hit his tee shot. Remember, now, everyone on the tee box had just gone through the emotions of what at least one of them swore was a hole-in-one by Pressnall, so the energy level was high.
Bontrager's shot, he said, mirrored the shot hit by Pressnall. The golf ball took the same path of flight and landed on the green and looked to roll straight toward the flag stick.
Could it be? Had a couple of small-town Kansas guys — decent golfers but nothing close to scratch — done the impossible? Or at least accomplished something National Hole-In-One Registry determined has at least 17 million to 1 odds? Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2011/06/24/1906241/its-hole-in-one-after-another.html#ixzz1QGhW8UQK
As a person who has no idea where a golf ball is going when he hit's it, it is great news when an amateur leads a major tournament and two golfers competing against each other, hit back to back hole in ones.
Good job, gentlemen.