For Leo Fiyalko, it started out as just another game of golf at the Cave Cay Country Club. The 92-year-old man is modest, if nothing else, about his accomplishment that has made him a local celebrity. Fiyalko brushed off the amazing feat as nothing special and his fellow golfers even had to convince him to tell his wife about his first hole-in-one. It’s something he’s only done once in the 60 years since he first started golfing.
Every Thursday, the Clearwater, Florida native tees up and golfs with a group between the ages of 70-90+. The avid golfer suffers from muscular degeneration, which has caused his blindness. Nevertheless, he still never misses the opportunity to play a sport he has loved for years. Using his five iron, Fiyalko shot his ball 110-yards and though the other golfers in his group knew he hit the green at the fifth hole on the course, they didn’t know it was a hole-in-one until they moved to the green and his ball was already in the hole.
“I was just trying to put the ball on the green,” Fiyalko said for an article displayed on MSNBC.
To celebrate the hole-in-one, Fiyalko was presented with a plaque by his friends at the Country Club.
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