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‘Go in!’: Watch Webb Simpson’s 360-degree Ace at Sea Island

During the first round of the RSM Classic at Sea Island, Webb Simpson made a wild hole-in-one.

Gabrielle Herzig

‘Go in!’: Watch Webb Simpson’s 360-degree Ace at Sea Island
‘Go in!’: Watch Webb Simpson’s 360-degree Ace at Sea Island /

There’s no such thing as an unexciting hole-in-one, but some are definitely more amusing than others. Webb Simpson’s ace in the first round of the RSM Classic, the PGA Tour’s final event of the 2022 season, was one of those hole-outs that just leaves you smiling in shock.

Not only did Simpson predict his own ace, muttering, “Yeah. Go in!” at the exact right moment, but his ball also made a 360-degree loop before dropping into the cup. It’s almost as if Simpson, 37, willed the shot into the hole.

Justin Rose, playing alongside Simpson, was just as surprised by the hole-in-one as his playing partner, adding, “You gotta get one right eventually.”

Simpson’s club of choice for 219-yard par-3 was a hybrid with a right to left ball flight. The ace came on the 3rd hole of Sea Island Golf Club’s Plantation Course, one of the club's two 18-hole championship courses. 

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Gabrielle Herzig is a Breaking and Trending News writer for Sports Illustrated Golf. Previously, she worked as a Golf Digest Contributing Editor, an NBC Sports Digital Editorial Intern, and a Production Runner for FOX Sports at the site of the 2018 U.S. Open. Gabrielle graduated as a Politics Major from Pomona College in Claremont, California, where she was a four-year member and senior-year captain of the Pomona-Pitzer women’s golf team. In her junior year, Gabrielle studied abroad in Scotland for three months, where she explored the Home of Golf by joining the Edinburgh University Golf Club.

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