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  2. Hole-in-one and other odd insurance policies

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    As someone who doesn't golf much and has never hit a hole-in-one, no matter how good the odds, I don't expect I'll ever need hole-in-one insurance. But some people must, because there's a market ...

  3. Francis Scheid - Wikipedia

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    In 2005, Golf Digest consulted him on the odds of making a hole-in-one, which he estimated to be 12,000 to 1 for an average player. [ 6 ] He wrote four popular books on the mathematics of golf, including "Golfers Come in Many Shapes and Sizes," an account of the theory and history of golf handicapping, and also "You Can't Get Lost on a Golf ...

  4. Hole in one - Wikipedia

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    In golf, a hole in one or hole-in-one occurs when a ball hit from a tee to start a hole finishes in the cup. The feat is also known as an ace, mostly in American English.As the feat needs to occur on the stroke that starts a hole, a ball hit from a tee following a lost ball, out-of-bounds, or water hazard is not a hole-in-one, due to the application of a stroke penalty.

  5. Meet the Hesston 13-year-old golfer who made two holes-in-one ...

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    In a span of mere hours, Koehn upped his career hole-in-one total from zero to two. According to the National Hole-In-One Registry , the odds of making two aces in a single round are 67 million to 1.

  6. Golfer predicts his own hole-in-one moments before hitting it ...

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    One golfer has bragging rights over all his friends after calling his own hole-in-one moments before hitting it. And if you doubt any of this happened, don't worry, there's video. The clip begins ...

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  8. Fixed-odds betting - Wikipedia

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    In making a bet where the expected value is positive, one is said to be getting "the best of it". For example, if one were to bet $1 at 10 to 1 odds (one could win $10) on the outcome of a coin flip, one would be getting "the best of it" and should always make the bet (assuming a rational and risk-neutral attitude with linear utility curves and have no preferences implying loss aversion or the ...

  9. Par (score) - Wikipedia

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    A sign at The River Course at Blackwolf Run in Kohler, Wisconsin, indicating that the seventh hole being played is a par-four. In golf, par is the predetermined number of strokes that a proficient (scratch, or zero handicap) [1] golfer should require to complete a hole, a round (the sum of the pars of the played holes), or a tournament (the sum of the pars of each round).