The wind screamed in our faces at tee 17 at The Course at Aberdeen. This made it a requirement to club up to make it to the flag 155 yards away. I hit a fade into the wind starting on the right side of the flag when I lost sight of it. "That's a hole in one" said Ken when the ball hits the apex of the shot. The ball crashes down and an echo rings out from the flag stick, but no ball is in site. We celebrate the disappearance of the orange Titleist Velocity as a clear hole in one, but then disaster an orange object 40 feet from the hole is pointed out by the group. Now the story becomes I hit the flag stick and somehow it bounced off and rolled to the left 40 feet away and we all missed the bad bounce. We drive up to the hole and I'm deflated. I was thinking I made my first hole in one ever, but instead I have a 40 foot birdie putt. As the cart pulls up the orange object turns out to be misidentified from the tee box and it is a landscaping flag. New life is breathed into the dream, a hole in one! I run up to the hole and the ball is calmly sitting waiting for a celebration!