Golfer Jon Rahm skips ball across pond for physics-defying hole-in-one
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.
You really need to see it to believe it (and even then, you probably won't):
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Making this moment extra special is that it's Rahm's second hole-in-one at Augusta National this week, and happened on his 26th birthday. Hey kid, forget the green jacket — buy a lotto ticket.
