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Ben Martin makes 243-yard hole-in-one at Cadillac Match Play

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Ben Martin makes 243-yard hole-in-one at Cadillac Match Play

 
Ben Martin walked up to the tee box on the 17th hole at Harding Park all square with Matt Kuchar in their first-round match at the Cadillac Match Play Championship. He walked off the tee box 1 up.
 
How, you ask? Well, Martin aced the 243-yard par-3 hole with a mighty cut of a fairway wood.
 
Kuchar, for his part, high-fived Martin and went on to birdie the hole himself. Both players parred the 18th,  so the 1-up victory went to the underdog, who entered the week ranked No. 67 in the world and is in the field largely on the strength of his victory at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas last fall. 
 
Up until this year, Martin's ace would have essentially knocked Kuchar out of the tournament. But under the new format, both live to play again on Thursday and Friday before anyone is eliminated.
 
The PGA Tour reports that this is Martin's eighth career ace, and comes in his first round in the match-play format since the 209 U.S. Amateur, where he made it all the way to the final before losing.
 
Here's the ace: