I am a 67 year old golfer who has played since the age of 4. I played Junior competitions and then graduated to Adult golf. At the age of 20 I won my Club Championship at Duddingston Golf Club in Edinburgh. The same year, I reached the 5th round of the Scottish Amateur Championship. My handicap was 3 at the time and within a year, was down to 1. Two years later, I was married and we raised a family and my golf became a secondary consideration.
Throughout all of these years of playing, I never holed in one although was very close several times.
In June of this year, I teed up in the Summer Meeting at Gullane Golf Club and took out a Titleist ProV1 2013 model for the first time in a medal round. At the short 4th hole (145yds - all carry), I struck a beautiful 7 iron which ended up in the hole. Unfortunately, the bottom of the pin is unsighted and I therefore did not see the ball go into the hole.
I assumed that I would be able to register this hole in one in various places and receive various mementos for the feat. It would appear that very few, if any, sources now award any sort of memento, which is very sad. I did, however, notice a place on your website for a hole in one bag-tag, but was pretty disappointed to discover that only residents of USA are eligible to receive the bag-tag.
It would have been very good to have received the bag-tag eapecially as the ball was the new ProV1.Titleist have a decent presence in the UK, and as a resident of the Home of Golf, I find it a little sad that you are only willing to award your bag-tag to US residents. I joined your "Team Titleist" only recently and wonder if it has any relevence for me living in East Lothian as I do, within 2 miles of Muirfield, the course where the Open was played only last month and where I completed my 4th marshaling stint on the 1st hole.
I would have thought that a world wide and much respected golf manufacturer would have been able to award the hole in one bag tag to golfers out of the US as a matter of course - limited to registered members of Team Titleist of course.