Herb Duncan Scores An Ace

Former Detroit Tiger righthander, Herb Duncan scored a hole-in-one while playing golf with high school friends at Bald Mountain CC in Oakland County, Michigan on July 16, 2009. Using a three wood, the former Birmingham police officer recorded his one without knowing it. Thinking he was dancing on the putting surface, Duncan approached the 13th green, a 190 yard par three, and couldn’t locate his ball. Concluding that he lost it in a green side grass bunker, he penalized himself and took a drop, utilizing the “knee replacement rule” to overrule having to go back to the tee to rehit a drive. He lagged a chip near the hole and when he approached his second ball, found his original ball snuggly in the cup. It was Duncan’s first ace.

Duncan’s playing partners, John Platt and Ralph Everett, former classmates at Berkley High School, class of 1958, verified that the ball in the cup was his original ball. Duncan not only bought drinks at the Lake Orion-based golf course, he bought at his reknowned hangout, Red China, in suburban Troy, for his abundant cronies who frequent the place daily. There was no mention whether he would pick up the tab at Peabody’s in Birmingham, another of his known hideouts. The 70-year old Duncan will continue his quest to shoot his age.