The history behind golf's first hole-in-one.

Tom Morris, a four time Open Champion, recorded the first known hole-in-one in golf history in the 1800s. However, there had been conflicting reports about the actual year it occurred, but due to PGA Staff Writer T.J. Auclair, now we have the actual date.  

18-year-old Tom Morris aced the 166-yard, par-3, hole #8 the "Station Hole" on Prestwick Golf Club's original 12-hole course in the first round of the Open Championship, played on Sept. 16, 1869.

Ken Goodwin, Secretary of Prestwick Golf Club, provided the following explanation why the year "1869" was crossed out and "1868" was written in.

"For a long time there was a lot of confusion about which year Young Tom had a hole-in-one in the Open with various publications giving conflicting dates," Goodwin wrote in an email. "There was even some confusion at the Club in the 1930s when the scorecards were collated with the 1869 date being changed to 1868, but the newspaper report from the local press in 1869 definitely confirms that 1869 was the correct year."

Fun Fact:

"The Prestwick course was extended to 18 holes in 1882," Goodwin said, "only three of the original holes were retained and the old eighth hole was removed, so no longer exists."