Feilding's Andy Baker can still visualise the flight of the golf ball when he closes his eyes.
During the Hawkestone Golf Club's Keroama Trophy tournament on Saturday the 36-year-old, who has only been playing for a year, made his first ace on the 16th hole, a Par 3.
Taking out his 8 iron, Baker estimates the distance from tee to green was 125m, although he wasn't sure because "they move the tee blocks every now and then".
What he was sure of was that he hit it in the sweet spot as the ball departed, surprisingly not being affected by the wind running right to left.
"I knew I hit it well and I thought it was going off the back of the green - we all thought it was a little too much club," Baker said yesterday. "I saw it the whole way. It bounced, rolled and went straight in the hole. Unbelievable."