Golfer Jon Rahm skips ball across pond for physics-defying hole-in-one

Wow.
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Jon Rahm is out here single-handedly ensuring no one ever calls golf boring again.

On Tuesday, during a practice round for the Masters later this week, Rahm got a hole-in-one at Augusta National — in and of itself a cool achievement. But what makes it preposterous, miraculous, sheer wizardry, and "one of the craziest golf shots ever made" is that it happened while he was trying to skip a ball across the pond at the par-3 16th hole, as is tradition, ESPN reports.

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.