Efren's famous Z-shot seems like a shot that would be equivalent to a hole in one to me...
What is Pool’s Equivalent of a Hole-In-One in Golf?
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Agree here. Played golf as long as i've played pool. Never made a HIO but i've witnessed 3-4. All were bad shots that just got lucky. I don't see a pool equivalent. Maybe making the 9b on the snap at double-hill for a bunch of $$ would be sort of in same ballpark.
I vote on five balls pocketed on a 9-ball break on a 9-foot table as being equivalent to a hole-in-one. Not that many regular amateur nine-ball players have ever accomplished that and virtually none have ever made 6+ on the break.
On a big table?? I'd kinda agree with that. I've seen seven made on a bar-box a few times and a bunch of fives.
This is easy and nothing else is even remotely as close to equivalent in pool. 9 ball, 9 ft table, either 5 or 6 balls made on the break (I lean toward 6 I think). With this and a hole in one, both require only one shot, both happen on the "teeing off" shot, both can be made by almost any level of player but the better you are the more your odds are increased for doing it, both are about as rare, etc.
Which one, 5 or 6, as there’s a big difference? How many regular players do you know have ever made 6 balls on a 9-ball break?
I have witnessed 5 a few times over several years, and done it once myself. Never seen 6 first hand. That said, I've only heard tales of hole in ones, and the few noted on sports channels.
Each golf course averages reporting 10-15 hole-in-ones per year. In 25 years of owning / operating a 10 table poolroom, I’m aware of 6 balls being made on a 9-ball break only once, and 5 balls only 3-4 times, in 25 years.
Running a set of 9 games without your opponent getting a shot.
Well we all know how golfers are.... I'd apply a 45% shrinkage to that 10-15...lol
Making all 3 on the break in 3 ball would be the equivalent. 3 ball is played like’the skins game’. 4 strokes is par, 3 birdie, 2 eagle and all on the break a hole in one on a par 4. I have only one ace and several eagles.
If you make a hole in one , your opponent could possibly come to the tee and tie the hole. You run a session out, your suddenly in the clear.
I’m better at pool than I am at golf. I’ve run two six packs of 9 ball on a bar table and had 6 holes in one.
Not many golfers less than pro level can say they’ve had 6 hole-in-ones, and even a number of veteran touring pros haven’t had that many. If you’ve averaged 150 rounds a year for 40 years, that would have given you 24,000 chances on par 3’s for a hole-in-one. Your 6 aces would calculate to a 1 / 4000 chance for a hole-in-one, which would be more in line with the odds of a scratch golfer having a hole-in-one. If you are a better pool player than a golfer, all I can say is you must be a heck of a pool player or an incredibly lucky golfer, or both!
I was close to a scratch golfer at one time. I got my first hole in one about two months after I started playing. I was 15. My golf mentor - well into his 70s - was furious! He had played his whole life and never had one. I played HS golf that year and got another one in a tournament. Two in my first year. Better lucky than good.
That's actually a good comparison.... Both are/were experienced blind luck
After hearing yours and several other people's anecdotal experience, I'm now leaning slightly more towards 5 as being the closest in frequency of occurrence to a hole in one but still a bit torn.
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It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
Probably your first break and run. Then after that stringing together break and runs.
A hole in one in golf is comparable to breaking and running one game in a Ring Game. A hole in one is just a good score (eagle) on one hole. The golfer making the ace could end up with a terrible score for his 18 hole round. The only way a golfer making a hole in one gets any monetary reward is to be playing "skins" with a group of players. Thus the comparison to a ring game. Also, a tour pro on average has had many holes in one. A hole in one is not as rare as people think. I have golfed my entire life. I have worked at a country club for the past 20 years. I have seen alot of golf.