For my whole life I have played Buchanan Fields. It might not be pretty, but it sure is affordable. The executive course designed by Robert Muir Graves, offers a great challenge, and also helps you work on aspects of your game for harder course, including my current nemesis that I need to one day get the better of, Bayonet in Seaside, California. The seventh is long thought of as one of the hardest holes at Buchanan since it was made after the fact. The original first hole started at the clubhouse, and went to where the chipping green is now. At some point, the second hole became the first hole, as the course now starts with a par-4, that has one of the only OB's of the course, which is a driving range to the slicers' right for the first shot of the day. The seventh is weaved in-between the fifth, sixth and eighth in a very small piece of property at the very corner of the course and plays tight and unforgiving. To play the seventh, you have to commit to a line and believe in a shot. The tee box is narrow, trees come into play and the green is the size of a dime with an upslope that typically denies shots hit short, left is in trees or the next tee box and right has slew of bad options from being on the fifth tee box to a short-sided chip. To get on the green at the seventh is a mission in and of itself, to get close nearly impossible. I have played this course for probably, nearly 20-years, and only had a few looks at a hole-in-one's, and most came on the very doable par-3, fifth-hole, 133-yard hole that is very forgiving with only a lone bunker to the left and big green that is very soft. On this day, I was playing with my mom and a two-some we had joined on the second-hole on a slow Saturday, in which you waited after each shot. I hit a perfect seven-iron into this hole, and put it in. It is a surreal experience getting a hole-in-one at a course I have spent so much of my life, and even more so it is even better doing it with a Titleist golf ball as I have always tried to play Pro-V1s as often as I could afford them.