Hole in One!

We’re not comparing young Kash Latreille to Babe Ruth, whose famously called shot home run in the 1932 World Series has lived for over 90 years in baseball lore. But Latreille’s called shot was pretty impressive in its own right. The nine-year-old hit a hole-in-one Saturday, July 29, at Eagle Lakes Golf Club after telling his dad he was going to do it. What makes this story even more improbable is that his older brother, Kaden, 14, narrowly missed a hole-in-one on the previous shot.

“Kaden hit first and it looked really good,” said proud father Will Latreille. "I thought that one actually was going to go in and it just ran by the hole. And I said, ‘Oh man, that looks like a hole-in-one.’  Then I said, 'Man if that would have been a hole-in-one, we’d have partied.' And then Kash says, 'Dad, we're still going to party.' And I said, 'Well, yeah, for your birthday next week.' He said, 'No, I'm going to get a hole-in-one.' And he did it right away. He called his shot and it went right in. I've never even seen a hole-in-one, so that was pretty awesome.”

Kash’s ace was witnessed by his father, his brother Kaden, and a couple of other members of the golf course. It came on hole three, from 75 yards out, with a 7 iron.

So how did Kash feel when he saw the ball go in the hole?

"I was like, so surprised,” Kash Latreille said. "I was so happy. We just couldn't believe our eyes. It just rolled in. Hit the pin and went down the hole. My brother and I just ran up there.”

"It landed short and rolled right in,” said Will Latreille, "just like a putt. They watched it disappear."

The hole-in-one caps a great summer on the links for the Latreille brothers. 

On July 19 the brothers won the Best Ball Tournament for Southwest Florida Junior Golf at Olde Hickory Golf Club in Ft. Myers. The next day they both won local qualifiers of the Drive Chip and Putt competition at Pelican Marsh Golf Club. Next, they’ll compete in a sub-regional qualifier at Olde Florida Golf Club on August 26. If they qualify there, it will be on to a regional qualifier at Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Georgia. The ultimate goal is to go to the national finals at Augusta National on the day before the start of the Masters Tournament. Will Latreille thinks the goal is attainable.

 “They get to go to Augusta National if they make it past these next two qualifying stages,” Will Latreille said. "They could both travel to the Masters since they're in different age groups.”

Kaden starts eighth grade at Marco Island Charter Middle School this week, and Kash will be entering fourth grade at Tommie Barfield Elementary.