For the average golfer, the odds of making a hole-in-one are roughly 12,500 to 1. But the probabilities are even slimmer of jarring a tee shot in the manner Guy Mosley recently did.
Mosley, 34, is a caddie at the Dormie Club, a private course in West End, N.C., where he has worked for the past four seasons.
He calls it his “dream job.”
“I never have a bad day at the office,” Mosely told GOLF.com by phone this week.
A recent Thursday was even better than most.
The day in question — June 26, 2025 — began ordinarily enough. Mosley was looping for an amiable threesome, the same trio for whom he’d carried the day before. The round was flying by, and Mosley was fielding the usual questions — How far to the flagstick? What’s the wind doing? Which way does this one break? — when one of the guys hit him with a query that every caddie gets from time to time.
“So, do you play?”
Born in Singapore, and raised on the islands of Saipan and Guam, Mosley was never a competitive golfer. But he learned the game early while accompanying his father on business trips to Florida, and though he gave it up for years to devote himself to basketball, a sport he played briefly in college, he retains a single-digit’s fluid swing.
So, did he play?
Mosley allowed that he could hold his own.
This happened on the tee of the par-3 16th hole, where Mosley was wiping down a club. He’d already given his players a number— 171 yards actual, wind-adjusted to 168. But now his players wanted something more from him. They wanted him to hit a shot.
At some courses, caddies are discouraged from taking whacks, even if their clients urge them to. But, Mosley said, the Dormie Club is not like that. The atmosphere is easy-going, and there’s no prohibition against that kind of fun. In the 600 or so rounds he’s logged as a looper, Mosley said he’s been called upon to hit about 100 times.
“I’ve hit hero shots and I’ve hit hosel rockets,” he said. “It’s probably about an 80 to 20 percent failure to success rate.”
That ratio was about to improve.
Mosley grabbed a Callaway Apex 8-iron from one of his player’s bags and teed up a TaylorMade ball that he’d found in the woods a few holes prior. He waggled, swung and . . . what were the odds?
In 2018, while caddying for his father in the Par 3 Contest at the Masters, Gary Nicklaus made a pinch-hit hole-in-one on the 9th hole. More recently, during a closest-to-the-pin contest among caddies at the 2025 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, Collin Morikawa’s then-bagman, J.J. Jakovac, aced the island-green 17th hole. Both moments were captured by TV cameras.
At the Dormie Club, one of the players had his iPhone out. You can watch the video below, which includes the sight and sound of a flushed tee shot, followed by the celebration of Mosley’s first-ever hole-in-one.
