The Loop

GIF: Zach Johnson makes a hole-in-one, then high fives a million different people

Hole-in-ones are hard to come by at Pinehurst No. 2. When Zach Johnson stepped onto the ninth hole Sunday, no aces had been recorded at the 2014 U.S. Open and only one had ever been recorded at a Pinehurst U.S. Open -- by Peter Jacobsen, also on the ninth hole. That changed when Zach Johnson did this:

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