One-armed golfer scores a backhand hole in one

A ONE-armed golfer stunned playing partners when he scored a hole-in-one with his special back-handed drive. Harold Gilmore, 65, lost his right arm in a motorcycle accident in the 1960s but took up golf five years ago.

Mr Gilmore, of Atwick, near Hornsea, who has a handicap of 24 and has an artificial replacement arm, struck the 135-yard, one-handed drive with a seven-iron from the second tee at Bridlington’s Belvedere Club.

Initially he believed it had landed in a bunker – but he was astonished when his playing partner discovered the ball in the hole.