Walker Cup hero's hot streak continues, makes hole-in-one at iconic course

It'll be tough for Luke Poulter to top the Sunday heroics of his GB&I team, which pulled off the greatest comeback in Walker Cup history. It’s the stuff of golf dreams. He got to celebrate in a pub with his teammates after the Lahinch victory, and his father picked up the tab. How could it get much better? Consider what he did on Tuesday as an encore.

The University of Florida senior flew across the pond from Lahinch for Derek Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation event at Liberty National—then proceeded to ace one of the club’s most epic holes, the par-3 fourth. Poulter was playing alongside co-founder of Liberty National Dan Fireman.

Poulter joins a litany of other talented young amateurs, such as Miles Russell, Aphrodite Deng, Megha Ganne, etc., who have deals with Liberty National. The Englishman first sported the New Jersey club logo at the U.S. Amateur in August.

This would be an all-time hole-in-one story, and it still is, but consider Poulter’s first-ever ace was also Walker Cup-related, during a practice round before the last matches at Cypress Point. The Englishman hooped it at Cypress Point’s third hole … after holing out for an eagle at the first hole.

Just an epic run for Poulter. It's a shame the 22-year-old will likely be a pro golfer before the next Walker Cup at Bandon Dunes, or else we're sure he'd have another epic hole-in-one story to tell.