First hickory hole-in-one in Finland, since maybe the 1930s. Antti Paatola describes his perfect shot from October 2011. “On Saturday Oct. 8, 2011 we had a season-ending club competition at my home club, Keimola Golf Club. The 15th hole on our Saras course is a 150-meter par-3 where the green is a few meters below the tee. A beautiful hole. I had in my hand a concentric back Gibson iron which has no name on it. It is about 26 degrees so it is equivalent to today’s 4-iron. Originally this club was put together by a club pro, William Binnie, who worked at two clubs in Kinghorn, Scotland from 1901 to 1912. Because this club is one of my favourite ones I have broken the shaft and now it has a modern hickory shaft from Mike Just, Louisville Golf. I had a good hit and immediately other players said that it looks good. The ball went straight into the cup. A sound of the ball hitting the pin and no ball on the green so it must have gone in and so it did. My third hole-in-one and my first with hickories.”