Local golfer drops hole in one at The Idaho Club

SANDPOINT — It took Sagle golfer Jacalyn Siemer all of two years and change to drop her first hole-in-one, acing the 114 yard par-3 at the Idaho Club with her driver on Friday, accomplishing a feat some golfers spend a lifetime never doing.

Siemer was playing with her husband Steve Siemer when she stepped to the lady’s tee-box on the par 3 14th hole with a driver in hand and looked over a water hazzard.

“I use my driver on all of the holes,” she admitted. “I was happy I made it over the water.”

She’s only been playing golf for just over two years, and tries to play once a week. She never dreamed of making a hole-in-one when she gripped it and ripped it on No. 14, but that’s never mattered much to the golf gods.

“It really was luck. You line it up and aim for the flag,” she said. “It goes over that water hazzard, and tink, it hit the flag and dropped. I went ‘oh my goodness that could be a hole-in-one.’”

While they heard what happened, they weren’t 100 percent sure what was up until they approached the green and no ball was anywhere to be seen.

“We weren’t sure until we looked in the cup,” she described of the shot she’ll never forget.